Galatians 5

NET

4 You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!


Darby

4 Ye are deprived of all profitD8575 from the Christ as separated [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.


Darby Bible Notes

profit - The word translated here 'deprived of all profit' is hard to translate. The active form means to render anything useless and unprofitable, or miss an opportunity; as 'annulled,' Eph. 2.15. Here it is passive and with the preposition (apo) 'from.' Hence it is to be deprived of the profit or effect of anything. It is used in Rom. 7.6 ('we are clear') in the same form as here, for our deliverance from under the law; only there it refers not to profit, but to the action of the law. It had for them become void of effect. So here Christ. What the word speaks of is, not separation from Christ personally, but from what is for us in him.


KJV

4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.