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"For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ."(Galatians 3:27) Baptism is rich in meaning, purpose, and symbolism, reflecting the profound spiritual truths of the gospel. When we enter the waters of baptism, we are publicly declaring the message of salvation: that...
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ...
Paul makes it overly clear that this seed of Abraham is Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:16), and the Body of Christ comprises the believers in him (Colossians 1:24). In other words: the famous re-birth/ born-again principle of Christianity entails an incarnation into the Body of Christ. When...
“Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." Galatians 4:6 The name Abba Father is the word for God in the Lord's Prayer (Luke 11:2) The epithet is strikingly frequent in John (108 times) and also in Ma...
Paulexplains that Abraham's offspring isChristand whoever is in Christ (Galatians 3:29), and when the magi come to look for the newborn Christ and say that they saw his star in the east (Matthew 2:2), they might have simply referred to the Book of Esther and the other Scriptures tha...
Galatians 5:19-21 19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that...
"full of goodness." (Romans 15:14); "gentleness, goodness, faith" (Galatians 5:22); "in all goodness and righteousness and truth" (Ephesians 5:9); "all the good pleasure of his goodness," the Revised Version (British and American) "every desire of goodness." (2 Thessalonians 1:11)...
" though evidence for the isolated collocationfac totumis nearly as early. Martin Luther usesfac totumin the non-personal sense "that which does everything" in his commentary on Galatians (1535): "Est igitur fides fac totum (ut ita loquar) in operibus" ("It is faith, as I so speak,...
will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. 9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity,let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.(Galatians 6:7-10)...