Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Parallel translations
- WEB since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
- BSB since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
- NKJV since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
- NASB since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.
- NLT There is only one God, and he makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.
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Quick answer
The one God justifies both Jew and Gentile by the same faith. There is a single way of salvation for all.
Overview
Paul grounds his point in the oneness of God: because there is one God, there is one way to be made right with him, through faith. Whether circumcised or uncircumcised, all are justified on the same basis. This underscores that the gospel unites diverse peoples under a common Savior and a common faith.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Gal 3:8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
- Gal 3:20Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
- Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
- Col 2:10–11And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
- Gal 2:14–16But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
- Rom 4:11–12And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
- Gal 5:6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
- Gal 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
- Rom 3:28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
- Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Rom 10:12–13For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
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