Galatians 5:2
Good News Translation
Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, it means that Christ is of no use to you at all.

New Revised Standard Version
Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

Contemporary English Version
I, Paul, promise you that Christ won't do you any good if you get circumcised.

New American Bible
It is I, Paul, who am telling you that if you have yourselves circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

I Paul.

1 Corinthians 16:21 The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand.

2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

1 Thessalonians 2:18 For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again: but Satan hath hindered us.

Philemon 1:9 For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ.

that.

Galatians 5:4,6 You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace. . . .

Galatians 2:3-5 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Gentile, was compelled to be circumcised. . . .

Acts 15:1,24 And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That, except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved. . . .

Acts 16:3,4 Him Paul would have to go along with him: and taking him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they all knew that his father was a Gentile. . . .

Romans 9:31,32 But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice. . . .

Romans 10:2,3 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. . . .

Hebrews 4:2 For unto us also it hath been declared in like manner as unto them. But the word of hearing did not profit them, not being mixed with faith of those things they heard.

Context
Freedom in Christ
1Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage. 2Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a debtor to do the whole law.…
Cross References
Acts 15:1
And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That, except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved.

Acts 15:5
But there arose of the sect of the Pharisees some that believed, saying: They must be circumcised and be commanded to observe the law of Moses.

2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Galatians 5:3
And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

Philemon 1:19
I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also.

Galatians 5:1
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