Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
4. Christ has become of no effect unto you. “If ye seek any part of righteousness in the works of the law, Christ has no concern with you, and ye are fallen from grace.” They were not so grossly mistaken as to believe that by the observance of the law alone they were justified, but attempted to mix Christ with the law.
Christ has freed us from the yoke of the ceremonial law and from the curse of the moral law alike. Stand fast in this liberty and do not suffer yourselves to be entangled again in bondage, no matter what pressure the Judaizers apply.
AI summary
Commenting on Galatians 5:1-12
Christ is become of no effect unto you,.... Or "ye are abolished from Christ"; or as others by an "hypallage" read the words, "Christ is abolished unto you"; for by their seeking for justification by their own works, it was all one to them as if there was no Christ, and no righteousness in him, and no salvation by him; they had nothing to do...