Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Backsliding » Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel
You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been openly set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.
Circumcision » Trusting to, a denial of Christ
Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.
Judaism » Reversion to
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?
You observe days, and months, and times, and years.
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?