<p>5:4- see on Gal. 6:14.</p><p><i>You are severed from Christ </i><i>if you would be justified by the law You are fallen away from grace</i>- Some texts read &quot;Christ is become of no effect&quot;. Whichever reading is correct, the implications of attempting salvation by obedience are pretty severe. Christ's death was to no purpose, He died in vain; or, in allusion to the Lord's parable of the vine in Jn. 15, we are severed from Christ because we have severed ourselves. This would come about by no longer believing that being &quot;in Him&quot; was important for salvation.</p>