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- testify - "declare" or "serve as a witness"
- to every man who is circumcised - "to every person who has become a Jew." Paul is using circumcision as a mmetonym for being Jewish. (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_metonymy)
- obliged - "bound" or "constrained" or "enslaved"
- to do - "to obey"
- You are alienated from Christ - "You have ended your relationship with Christ"
- seek to be justified by the law - "look for ways to have God declare you good by obeying the law." The law is metonymy for Judaism.
- you have fallen away from grace - Paul is comparing a person who decides that he does not need or want the grace of Christ to someone who falls from a good high place to a bad lower place. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)