Galatians 5:1-4
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AN INCENTIVE TO HOLINESS OF LIFE. Christian liberty opposed to legal bondage:... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AN INCENTIVE TO HOLINESS OF LIFE. Christian liberty opposed to legal bondage:... [ Continue Reading ]
STAND FAST, THEREFORE, IN THE LIBERTY WHEREWITH CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE, AND BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, I, PAUL, SAY UNTO YOU THAT IF YE BE CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN THAT IS CIRCUMCISED THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO DO THE WHOLE LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST IS BECOME OF NO EFFECT UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER OF YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW; YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE. The concluding verse of chapter 4 is incidentally the transition to the hortatory part of the epistle. Because the Christians are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free, because they... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE THROUGH THE SPIRIT WAIT FOR THE HOPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul warns against the leaven of false doctrine:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IN JESUS CHRIST NEITHER CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH ANYTHING NOR UNCIRCUMCISION, BUT FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE DID RUN WELL; WHO DID HINDER YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH?... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS PERSUASION COMETH NOT OF HIM THAT CALLETH YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU THROUGH THE LORD THAT YE WILL BE NONE OTHERWISE MINDED; BUT HE THAT TROUBLETH YOU SHALL BEAR HIS JUDGMENT, WHOSOEVER HE BE. In a beautiful summary of some of the main points of Christian doctrine the apostle here, first of all, reminds the Galatians of the spiritual benefits... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I, BRETHREN, IF I YET PREACH CIRCUMCISION, WHY DO I YET SUFFER PERSECUTION? THEN IS THE OFFENSE OF THE CROSS CEASED.... [ Continue Reading ]
The service of love as opposed to the service of the flesh:... [ Continue Reading ]
I WOULD THEY WERE EVEN CUT OFF WHICH TROUBLE YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR, BRETHREN, YE HAVE BEEN CALLED UNTO LIBERTY; ONLY USE NOT LIBERTY FOR AN OCCASION TO THE FLESH, BUT BY LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED IN ONE WORD, EVEN IN THIS: THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF YE BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, TAKE HEED THAT YE BE NOT CONSUMED ONE OF ANOTHER. Paul here finds it necessary to deny a charge of the false teachers that he himself was still preaching circumcision. It may be that the resolution of the meeting at Jerusalem was deliberately misconstrued, Acts... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS I SAY, THEN, WALK IN THE SPIRIT, AND YE SHALL NOT FULFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH.... [ Continue Reading ]
The works of the flesh:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE FLESH LUSTETH AGAINST THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT AGAINST THE FLESH; AND THESE ARE CONTRARY THE ONE TO THE OTHER, SO THAT YE CANNOT DO THE THINGS THAT YE WOULD.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF YE BE LED OF THE SPIRIT, YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE: ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS,... [ Continue Reading ]
IDOLATRY, WITCHCRAFT, HATRED, VARIANCE, EMULATIONS, WRATH, STRIFE, SEDITIONS, HERESIES,... [ Continue Reading ]
ENVYINGS, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELINGS, AND SUCH LIKE; OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. The apostle here develops the topic which he announced in v. 13. His first point is a general exhortati... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH,... [ Continue Reading ]
The fruits of the Spirit:... [ Continue Reading ]
MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE; AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT, LET US ALSO WALK IN THE SPIRIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET US NOT BE DESIROUS OF VAINGLORY, PROVOKING ONE ANOTHER, ENVYING ONE ANOTHER. In contrast to the sins and vices which the apostle has enumerated above, he here offers a brief, but comprehensive list of Christian virtues, calling them fruits of the Spirit, since they, through the power of the Spir... [ Continue Reading ]