_ VERSE 1. PAUL, AN APOSTLE, (NOT OF MEN, NEITHER BY MAN, BUT BY JESUS CHRIST, AND GOD THE FATHER, WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD)._ The Certainty of Our Calling _ VERSE 1. PAUL, AN APOSTLE, (NOT OF MEN, ETC.)_ Elsewhere Paul draws a sharp distinction between an apostleship and lesser functions, as... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSE 1. PAUL, AN APOSTLE, (NOT OF MEN, NEITHER BY MAN, BUT BY JESUS CHRIST, AND GOD THE FATHER, WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD)._ The Certainty of Our Calling _ VERSE 1. PAUL, AN APOSTLE, (NOT OF MEN, ETC.)_ Elsewhere Paul draws a sharp distinction between an apostleship and lesser functions, as... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 2. AND ALL THE BRETHREN WHICH ARE WITH ME._ VERSE 2. Unto the churches of Galatia.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 3. GRACE BE TO YOU, AND PEACE, FROM GOD THE FATHER, AND FROM OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST._ Men Should Not Speculate About the Nature of God It is a principle of the Bible that we are not to inquire curiously into the nature of God. "There shall no man see me, and live," Exodus 33:20. All who trus... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 4. WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR OUR SINS._ VERSE 4. That he might deliver us from this present evil world. In this passage Paul contends against the false apostles for the article of Justification. Christ, says Paul, has delivered us from this wicked kingdom of the devil and the world according to... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 5. TO WHOM BE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 6. I MARVEL._ VERSE 6. That ye are so soon. VERSE 6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed. VERSE 6. From him that called you into the grace of Christ. VERSE 6. Unto another gospel.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSE 7. WHICH IS NOT ANOTHER; BUT THERE BE SOME THAT TROUBLE YOU._ VERSE 7. And would pervert the gospel of Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 8. BUT THOUGH WE, OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN, PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT WHICH WE HAVE PREACHED UNTO YOU, LET HIM BE ACCURSED._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 9. AS WE SAID BEFORE, SO SAY I NOW AGAIN. IF ANY MAN PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT YE HAVE RECEIVED, LET HIM BE ACCURSED._... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSE 10. FOR DO I NOW PERSUADE MEN, OR GOD?_ VERSE 10. Or do I seek to please men? VERSE 10. For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSES 11, 12. BUT I CERTIFY YOU, BRETHREN, THAT THE GOSPEL WHICH WAS PREACHED OF ME IS NOT AFTER MAN. FOR I NEITHER RECEIVED IT OF MAN, NEITHER WAS I TAUGHT IT, BUT BY THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST._... [ Continue Reading ]
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_VERSES 13, 14. FOR YE HAVE HEARD OF MY CONVERSATION IN TIME PAST IN THE JEWS' RELIGION, HOW THAT BEYOND MEASURE I PERSECUTED THE CHURCH OF GOD, AND WASTED IT: AND PROFITED IN THE JEWS' RELIGION ABOVE MANY MY EQUALS IN MINE OWN NATION._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 14. BEING MORE EXCEEDINGLY ZEALOUS OF THE TRADITIONS OF MY FATHERS._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSES 15, 16, 17. BUT WHEN IT PLEASED GOD, WHO SEPARATED ME FROM MY MOTHER'S WOMB, AND CALLED ME BY HIS GRACE. TO REVEAL HIS SON IN ME, THAT I MIGHT PREACH HIM AMONG THE HEATHEN; IMMEDIATELY I CONFERRED NOT WITH FLESH AND BLOOD: NEITHER WENT I UP TO JERUSALEM TO THEM WHICH WERE APOSTLES BEFORE ME;... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 16. TO REVEAL HIS SON TO ME._ VERSE 16. That I might preach him among the heathen. VERSE 16. Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 17. NEITHER WENT I UP TO JERUSALEM TO THEM WHICH WERE APOSTLES BEFORE ME; BUT I WENT INTO ARABIA, AND RETURNED AGAIN UNTO DAMASCUS._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSES 18, 19. THEN AFTER THREE YEARS I WENT UP TO JERUSALEM TO SEE PETER, AND ABODE WITH HIM FIFTEEN DAYS. BUT OTHER OF THE APOSTLES SAW I NONE, SAVE JAMES THE LORD'S BROTHER._... [ Continue Reading ]
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_ VERSE 20. NOW THE THINGS WHICH I WRITE UNTO YOU, BEHOLD, BEFORE GOD, I LIE NOT._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 21. AFTERWARDS I CAME INTO THE REGIONS OF SYRIA AND CILICIA._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 22, 23, 24. AND WAS UNKNOWN BY FACE UNTO THE CHURCHES OF JUDAEA WHICH WERE IN CHRIST: BUT THEY HAD HEARD ONLY, THAT HE WHICH PERSECUTED US IN TIMES PAST NOW PREACHETH THE FAITH WHICH ONCE HE DESTROYED. AND THEY GLORIFIED GOD IN ME._... [ Continue Reading ]
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