Passage Overview · Free · Galatians 5:1–6
Stand Fast in Freedom
The argument reaches an urgent command: stand firm in the freedom Christ has given and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. In this controversy, receiving circumcision as a requirement for covenant standing is not a harmless addition; it commits a person to the whole law and treats Christ as insufficient. Paul contrasts that path with waiting through the Spirit for the hope of righteousness by faith. In Christ, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is the decisive badge—what counts is “faith which worketh by love.”