Final Warning and Benediction

Galatians 6

¹¹ See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand! ¹² As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, _q only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. ¹³ For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. ¹⁴ But God forbid that I should boast except in the _r cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by ₁ whom ₂ the world has been crucified to me, and _s I to the world. ¹⁵ For _t in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. ¹⁶ And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

¹⁷ From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁸ Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

1. Cross References
   Galatians 5:11
   And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.
   Philippians 3:8
   Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 1:18
   For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
   
3. Cross References
   Galatians 2:20
   I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
   Colossians 2:20
   Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations -
   
4. Cross References
   Romans 2:26
   Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
   Romans 2:28
   For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
   1 Corinthians 7:19
   Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
   Galatians 5:6
   For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
   

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