Gálatas 5:3

3 Lo repito: si pretenden lograr el favor de Dios mediante la circuncisión, entonces están obligados a obedecer cada una de las ordenanzas de la ley de Moisés.

Gálatas 5:3 Meaning and Commentary

Galatians 5:3

For I testify again to every man
This is the form of an oath, a calling God to witness, swearing by the living God, and declaring as in his presence to every man, whether Jew or Gentile, whoever he be:

that is circumcised;
in order to obtain salvation, and as necessary to it:

that he is a debtor to do the whole law;
and this it is that made circumcision an insupportable yoke, for that itself might be bore, and was bore by children of eight days old; but the fulfilling of the whole law cannot be done by any man; and yet everyone that is circumcised, in order to procure righteousness and life, is bound to keep the whole law; because the law is only his righteousness, when he observes all that is required in it, and as the Lord has commanded; if he does not, he is pronounced accursed: and this proves what was before said, that Christ is of no profit to such persons; because they reject him and his righteousness, and, as much as in them lie, make void his obedience, sufferings, and death: hence the same thing is repeated, though not in the same words, in the next verse.

Gálatas 5:3 In-Context

1 Libertad en Cristo
Por lo tanto, Cristo en verdad nos ha liberado. Ahora asegúrense de permanecer libres y no se esclavicen de nuevo a la ley.

2 ¡Presten atención! Yo, Pablo, les digo lo siguiente: si dependen de la circuncisión para hacerse justos ante Dios, entonces Cristo no les servirá de nada.

3 Lo repito: si pretenden lograr el favor de Dios mediante la circuncisión, entonces están obligados a obedecer cada una de las ordenanzas de la ley de Moisés.

4 Pues, si ustedes pretenden hacerse justos ante Dios por cumplir la ley, ¡han quedado separados de Cristo! Han caído de la gracia de Dios.

5 Sin embargo, los que vivimos por el Espíritu esperamos con anhelo recibir por la fe la justicia que Dios nos ha prometido.