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 astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

You were doing splendidly. Who was it that prevented you from obeying the Truth?

for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, ??if that were possible.

Now for some time previous a man called Simon had been practising magic arts in the town, to the utter astonishment of the Samaritan nation; he made himself out to be a great person,

but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

He performs amazing miracles, even making fire descend from heaven on earth in the sight of men,

for all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her vice, the kings of the earth have committed vice with her, and by the wealth of her wantonness earth's traders have grown rich."

Jesus christ

but our message is Christ the crucified ??a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

For as often as you eat this loaf and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ