Galatians 2 - Introduction
_VERSE 1. THEN FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER I WENT UP AGAIN TO JERUSALEM._ VERSE 1. With Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 1. THEN FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER I WENT UP AGAIN TO JERUSALEM._ VERSE 1. With Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSE 1. THEN FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER I WENT UP AGAIN TO JERUSALEM._ VERSE 1. With Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 2. AND I WENT UP BY REVELATION._ VERSE 2. And communicated unto them that gospel. VERSE 2. Which I preach among the Gentiles. Among the Jews Paul allowed Law and circumcision to stand for the time being. So did all the apostles. Nevertheless Paul held fast to the liberty of the Gospel. On... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 3. BUT NEITHER TITUS, WHO WAS WITH ME, BEING A GREEK, WAS COMPELLED TO BE CIRCUMCISED._... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSES 4,5. AND THAT BECAUSE OF FALSE BRETHREN UNAWARES BROUGHT IN, WHO CAME IN PRIVILY TO SPY OUT OUR LIBERTY WHICH WE HAVE IN CHRIST JESUS, THAT THEY MIGHT BRING US INTO BONDAGE: TO WHOM WE GAVE PLACE BY SUBJECTION, NO, NOT FOR AN HOUR; THAT THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL MIGHT CONTINUE WITH YOU._... [ Continue Reading ]
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_VERSE 6. BUT OF THOSE WHO SEEMED TO BE SOMEWHAT, WHATSOEVER THEY WERE, IT MAKETH NO MATTER TO ME._ VERSE 6. God accepteth no man's person. Paul is quoting Moses: "Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty." (Leviticus 19:15) This quotation from Moses ought... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSES 7, 8. BUT CONTRARIWISE, WHEN THEY SAW THAT THE GOSPEL OF THE UNCIRCUMCISION WAS COMMITTED UNTO ME, AS THE GOSPEL OF THE CIRCUMCISION WAS UNTO PETER; [FOR HE THAT WROUGHT EFFECTUALLY IN PETER TO THE APOSTLESHIP OF THE CIRCUMCISION, THE SAME WAS MIGHTY IN ME TOWARD THE GENTILES.]_... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 8. FOR HE THAT WROUGHT EFFECTUALLY IN PETER._ With these words Paul refutes another argument of the false apostles. "What reason have the false apostles to boast that the Gospel of Peter was mighty, that he converted many, that he wrought great miracles, and that his very shadow healed the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 9. AND WHEN JAMES, CEPHAS AND JOHN, WHO SEEMED TO BE PILLARS, PERCEIVED THE GRACE THAT WAS GIVEN UNTO ME, THEY GAVE TO ME AND BARNABAS THE RIGHT HANDS OF FELLOWSHIP; THAT WE SHOULD GO UNTO THE HEATHEN, AND THEY UNTO THE CIRCUMCISION._ VERSE 9. The right hands of fellowship.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 10. ONLY THEY WOULD THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE POOR; THE SAME WHICH I ALSO WAS FORWARD TO DO._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 11. BUT WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH, I WITHSTOOD HIM TO THE FACE, BECAUSE HE WAS TO BE BLAMED._ Paul goes on in his refutation of the false apostles by saying that in Antioch he withstood Peter in the presence of the whole congregation. As he stated before, Paul had no small matter in han... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 12. FOR BEFORE THAT CERTAIN CAME FROM JAMES, HE DID EAT WITH THE GENTILES._ VERSE 12. But when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 13. AND THE OTHER JEWS DISSEMBLED LIKEWISE WITH HIM; INSOMUCH THAT BARNABAS ALSO WAS CARRIED AWAY WITH THEIR DISSIMULATION._... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSE 14. BUT WHEN I SAW THAT THEY WALKED NOT UPRIGHTLY ACCORDING TO THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL._ VERSE 14. I said unto Peter before them all, If thou being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSE 15. WE WHO ARE JEWS BY NATURE, AND NOT SINNERS OF THE GENTILES._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 16. KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, BUT BY THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST._ The demands of the Law may be fulfilled before and after justification. There were many excellent men among the pagans of old, men who never heard of justification. They lived moral lives. But... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSE 17. BUT IF, WHILE WE SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST, WE OURSELVES ALSO ARE FOUND SINNERS, IS THEREFORE CHRIST THE MINISTER OF SIN? GOD FORBID._ The papists quote the words of Christ: "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." (Matthew 19:17.) With His own words they deny Christ... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 18. FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED, I MAKE MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR._... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSE 19. FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT LIVE UNTO GOD._ This cheering form of speech is frequently met with in the Scriptures, particularly in the writings of St. Paul, when the Law is set against the Law, and sin is made to oppose sin, and death is arrayed against death,... [ Continue Reading ]
_VERSE 20. I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST._ VERSE 20. Nevertheless I live. VERSE 20. Yet not I. VERSE 20. But Christ liveth in me. Whenever remission of sins is freely proclaimed, people misinterpret it according to Romans 3:8, "Let us do evil, that good may come." As soon as people hear that we are... [ Continue Reading ]
_ VERSE 21. I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD._ VERSE 21. For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.... [ Continue Reading ]