Galatians 3:1-5
SALVATION IS NOT OF WORKS, BUT BY FAITH. Paul appeals to the experience of the Galatians:... [ Continue Reading ]
SALVATION IS NOT OF WORKS, BUT BY FAITH. Paul appeals to the experience of the Galatians:... [ Continue Reading ]
O FOOLISH GALATIANS, WHO HATH BEWITCHED YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH, BEFORE WHOSE EYES JESUS CHRIST HATH BEEN EVIDENTLY SET FORTH, CRUCIFIED AMONG YOU?... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS ONLY WOULD I LEARN OF YOU, RECEIVED YE THE SPIRIT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW OR BY THE HEARING OF FAITH?... [ Continue Reading ]
ARE YE SO FOOLISH? HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT, ARE YE NOW MADE PERFECT BY THE FLESH?... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE YE SUFFERED SO MANY THINGS IN VAIN? IF IT BE YET IN VAIN!... [ Continue Reading ]
HE, THEREFORE, THAT MINISTERETH TO YOU THE SPIRIT, AND WORKETH MIRACLES AMONG YOU, DOETH HE IT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW OR BY THE HEARING OF FAITH? The apostle here opens the doctrinal section of his epistle. But so great is his agitation over the threatened defection of the Galatians that his custom... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul brings Scripture-proof for his position:... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOW YE, THEREFORE, THAT THEY WHICH ARE OF FAITH, THE SAME ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SCRIPTURE, FORESEEING THAT GOD WOULD JUSTIFY THE HEATHEN THROUGH FAITH, PREACHED BEFORE THE GOSPEL UNTO ABRAHAM, SAYING, IN THEE SHALL ALL NATIONS BE BLESSED.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO, THEN, THEY WHICH BE OF FAITH ARE BLESSED WITH FAITHFUL ABRAHAM. The apostle here reminds the Galatian Christians that were inclined to follow the Judaizing teachers of the example of Abraham, the ancestor of the Jewish nation, to whom the Jews were wont to refer with particular pride, and thus i... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS MANY AS ARE OF THE WORKS OF THE LAW ARE UNDER THE CURSE; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED IS EVERY ONE THAT CONTINUETH NOT IN ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW TO DO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's opponents are subject to the curse of the broken Law:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THAT NO MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, IT IS EVIDENT; FOR, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH; BUT, THE MAN THAT DOETH THEM SHALL LIVE IN THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, BEING MADE A CURSE FOR US; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, CURSED BE EVERY ONE THAT HANGETH ON A TREE;... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MIGHT COME ON THE GENTILES THROUGH JESUS CHRIST; THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH FAITH. Paul here takes up the claim of the Judaizing teachers as to obtaining the blessing of righteousness and salvation on the score of perfect obedience to the Law... [ Continue Reading ]
BRETHREN, I SPEAK AFTER THE MANNER OF MEN. THOUGH IT BE BUT A MAN'S COVENANT, YET IF IT BE CONFIRMED, NO MAN DISANNULLETH, OR ADDETH THERETO.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul argues finally from the promise of the inheritance made to Abraham:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW TO ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED WERE THE PROMISES MADE. HE SAITH NOT, AND TO SEEDS, AS OF MANY; BUT AS OF ONE, AND TO THY SEED, WHICH IS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS I SAY, THAT THE COVENANT, THAT WAS CONFIRMED BEFORE OF GOD IN CHRIST, THE LAW, WHICH WAS FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS AFTER, CANNOT DISANNUL, THAT IT SHOULD MAKE THE PROMISE OF NONE EFFECT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF THE INHERITANCE BE OF THE LAW, IT IS NO MORE OF PROMISE; BUT GOD GAVE IT TO ABRAHAM BY PROMISE. The apostle here offers the mystery of God in a human parable, incidentally addressing the Galatians in a kind and captivating manner, to win them by his confidential tone: After the manner of man... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, THEN, SERVETH THE LAW? IT WAS ADDED BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSIONS, TILL THE SEED SHOULD COME TO WHOM THE PROMISE WAS MADE; AND IT WAS ORDAINED BY ANGELS IN THE HAND OF A MEDIATOR.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROOFS FOR THE LIBERTY OF A CHRISTIAN FROM THE NATURE AND MEANING OF THE LAW. The secondary office of the Law:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW A MEDIATOR IS NOT A MEDIATOR OF ONE, BUT GOD IS ONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS THE LAW, THE N, AGAINST THE PROMISES OF GOD? GOD FORBID! FOR IF THERE HAD BEEN A LAW GIVEN WHICH COULD HAVE GIVEN LIFE, VERILY RIGHTEOUSNESS SHOULD HAVE BEEN BY THE LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE SCRIPTURE HATH CONCLUDED ALL UNDER SIN, THAT THE PROMISE BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST MIGHT BE GIVEN TO THEM THAT BELIEVE. The apostle here meets an objection which the opponents might make. If the Law can be of no assistance in the matter of justification, what is its purpose? He shows that the... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT BEFORE FAITH CAME, WE WERE KEPT UNDER THE LAW, SHUT UP UNTO THE FAITH WHICH SHOULD AFTERWARDS BE REVEALED.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Law's pedagogical task has now been completed:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE THE LAW WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US UNTO CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AFTER THAT FAITH IS COME, WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SCHOOLMASTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD BY FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, THERE IS NEITHER BOND NOR FREE, THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE; FOR YE ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF YE BE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE. The apostle here completes his discussion as to the purpose of the Law by holding before the Galatians an example with which they were familiar: But before faith came, we were in custody under the Law, shut up unto... [ Continue Reading ]