Galatians 3:1

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Summary

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Who

Jesus christ

Bible References

Who

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

You were making such progress! Who has stopped your obeying the truth?

for false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.

There was a man named Simon in the town, who had been amazing the Samaritan people by practicing magic there, and who made great pretensions.

But I am afraid that just as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts will be led astray from their single-hearted fidelity to Christ.

We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error.

The other's appearance, by the contrivance of Satan, will be full of power and pretended signs and wonders,

They utter arrogant nonsense and use physical cravings to lure into immorality men who are just escaping from among those who live in error;

But I hold it against you that you tolerate that Jezebel of a woman who claims to be inspired and who is misleading my slaves and teaching them to practice immorality and to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols.

It performs great wonders, even making fire come down from heaven to earth before men's eyes.

for after drinking the wine of the passion of her immorality all the heathen have fallen; the kings of the earth have joined in her idolatry, and the traders of the earth have grown rich from her excessive luxury!"

Jesus christ

but we proclaim a Christ who was crucified??n idea that is revolting to Jews and absurd to the heathen,

for I resolved, while I was with you, to forget everything but Jesus Christ and his crucifixion.

For until the Lord comes back, every time you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you proclaim his death.

To me, the very least of all his people, this favor has been given, of preaching to the heathen the inexhaustible wealth of the Christ,