Galatians

The Historical Example (vs. 21-23) 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? Paul confronts the Galatians for not knowing the very Law they want to be under. [...]

In Galatians 4:8-20, we see Paul revealing personal aspects of his life like never before. A true picture of a great shepherd who loved and cared for the people he taught.  An Appeal Not to [...]

WE ARE HEIRS OF CHRIST (4:1-7) I. Before Coming to Christ (vs. 1-3): I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child (nēpios, an immature toddler who is helpless), is no different from a slave, [...]

26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons (huios, full-grown children) of God, through faith. In 3:23-25, Paul has been addressing the nation of Israel (first-person plural, “we”) being under the [...]

19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. Paul [...]

15 To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant (last will or testament), no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and [...]

Those who live by the Law are required to obey each command to perfection. That, of course, is impossible for anyone to do. It’s not DOING the Law (fulfilling it) that saves a person. [...]

Do you know how Abraham was saved? In Galatians 3, Jason explains how Abraham was saved from his sin in Old Testament times prior to Jesus’s death and resurrection. 6 just as Abraham [...]

O foolish (a stupidity from deadness) Galatians! Who has bewitched (to be deceived by crafty means) you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed (evidently set forth)as [...]

16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not [...]