Faith, working through love

Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that, if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. Once again I testify to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the entire law. You who want to be reckoned as righteous by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love. (Galatians 5:2-6, NRSVue)

Faith. Working through love.

It does not matter if you are circumcised or not. Physical circumcision is not the mark that gets you in the kingdom.

Circumcision of the heart through faith is what matters.

Paul spends the whole book of Galatians telling the community that circumcision is not the answer and to live lives of faith because Jesus is what brings us to the kingdom. Not being what others tell us we need to be.

Live faith working through love.

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