Galatians 5:11 - Easy To Read Version My brothers and sisters, I don’t teach that people must be circumcised. {\cf2\super [66]} If I do teach circumcision, {\cf2\super [67]} then why am I still being persecuted? If I still taught that people must be circumcised, then my telling them about the cross would not be a problem. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But, brethren, if I still preach circumcision [as some accuse me of doing, as necessary to salvation], why am I still suffering persecution? In that case the cross has ceased to be a stumbling block and is made meaningless (done away). American Standard Version (1901) But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away. Common English Bible Brothers and sisters, if I’m still preaching circumcision, why am I still being harassed? In that case, the offense of the cross would be canceled. Catholic Public Domain Version And as for me, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still suffering persecution? For then the scandal of the Cross would be made empty. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void. |
If you will respect the Lord and consider him holy, then he will be a safe place for you. But you don’t respect him. So God is like a rock that you people fall over. He is a rock that makes the two families of Israel stumble. The Lord is a trap to catch all the people of Jerusalem.
Paul wanted Timothy to travel with him. But all the Jews living in that area knew that Timothy’s father was Greek (not Jewish). So Paul circumcised {\cf2\super [327]} Timothy to please the Jews.
These Jews have heard about your teaching. They heard that you tell the Jews who live in other countries among non-Jews to leave the law of Moses. They heard that you tell those Jews not to circumcise {\cf2\super [421]} their children and not to obey Jewish customs.
They shouted, “You Jewish men, help us! This is the man who is teaching things that are against the law of Moses, against our people, and against this place (the temple). This man is teaching these things to all people everywhere. And now he has brought some Greek (non-Jewish) men into the temple yard! He has made this holy place unclean!”
The teaching about the cross seems foolish to those people that are lost. But to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
But this is the message we tell everyone: Christ was killed on a cross. This message is a big problem to the Jews. And the non-Jews think it is foolish.
You people in Galatia were told very clearly about the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. But you were very foolish. You let someone trick you.
You belong to Christ. So you are Abraham’s {\cf2\super [45]} descendants. {\cf2\super [46]} You get all of God’s blessings because of the promise \{that God made to Abraham\}.
Some men are trying to force you to be circumcised. {\cf2\super [77]} They do these things so that other people (the Jews) will accept them. Those men are afraid they will be criticized if they follow only the cross of Christ. {\cf2\super [78]}
So don’t give me any more trouble. I have scars on my body. These scars show {\cf2\super [81]} that I belong to Jesus.