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You are alienated from Christ, you desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
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Grace or Law: No Middle Ground
Commentators unanimously agree that you cannot mix grace and law for salvation. Scholars like John Calvin and Charles Spurgeon emphasize that attempting to gain even a small part of your righteousness from keeping the law means you have renounced Christ entirely. The two systems are mutually exclusive; choosing to rely on the law is to abandon the system of grace.
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Galatians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Christ has become of no effect to you. You will derive no advantage from Christ. His work in regard to you is needless and vain. If you ca…
Ye are severed from Christ (κατηργηθητε απο Χριστου). First aorist passive of καταργεω, to make null and void as in Ro 7:2,6.
19th Century
Anglican
Christ is become of no effect unto you.—Literally, You were (or, more idiomatically, are) abolished…
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Baptist
Stand firm, therefore, in the liberty with which Christ had made us free, and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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Paul again states his points, this time dropping the hypothetical “if” for the strong assertion that those who want to be justified by law have bee…
16th Century
Protestant
Christ has become of no effect to you. “If you seek any part of righteousness in the works of the law, Christ has no concern with you, and…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Christ is become of no effect unto you Or "ye are abolished from Christ"; or as others by an "hypallage" read the words, "Chri…
Christ will not be the Saviour of anyone who will not acknowledge and rely upon Him as their only Saviour. Let us heed the warnings and persuasions…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Apostle showed that righteousness is not through the Law; here he leads them back from error to a state of right standing.
