🕊️WEB · Galatians 5:7

What does Galatians 5:7 mean?

"You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?"

— Galatians 5:7 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

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This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

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A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

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I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

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