Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Backsliding » Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel
Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth?
but I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from singleheartedness toward Christ.
O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you? before whose eyes Jesus Christ was plainly set forth among you crucified. This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from the works of the Law that ye received the Spirit, or by the preaching of faith? Are ye so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, do ye now end with the flesh?
Ye are entirely separated from Christ, who seek to obtain righteousness through the Law; ye have fallen away from grace.
Circumcision » Trusting to, a denial of Christ
Are ye so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, do ye now end with the flesh?
yea, I testify again to every one who becometh circumcised, that he is bound to keep the whole Law. Ye are entirely separated from Christ, who seek to obtain righteousness through the Law; ye have fallen away from grace.
Judaism » Reversion to
Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing;
Are ye so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, do ye now end with the flesh?
Do ye observe days, and months, and times, and years?
But when I saw that they were not walking uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of gentiles, and not that of the Jews, how is it that thou compellest the gentiles to keep the customs of the Jews?