Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Backsliding » Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel
You were running the race nobly! Who has interfered and caused you to swerve from the truth?
But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness and their fidelity to Christ.
You foolish Galatians! Whose sophistry has bewitched you--you to whom Jesus Christ has been vividly portrayed as on the Cross? Answer me this one question, "Is it on the ground of your obedience to the Law that you received the Spirit, or is it because, when you heard, you believed?" Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?
Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace.