The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”[e] Footnotes Galatia...
James the Just (not the “inner circle” James), and John. When major decisions needed to be made, these three weighed in. That’s why when Paul wanted to demonstrate his authority to the Galatians, he appealed to the authority of Peter, James, and John, calling them “those esteemed a...
From there, these Galatians, as the Greeks called them, plundered the rich cities of the Ionian coast until the Romans put an end to this nuisance in 166 BC. The remainder of the Celts returned to the north. This immigration led to a mixture of different ethnic groups and to the ...
Paul wanted the Galatians to know that they didn’t need to follow the Law of Moses to be saved. The gospel he preached to them was enough, and they just needed to have faith in Jesus. To prove his point, he told the Galatians that Peter...
of fire” (4:5) burning before God’s throne. This echoes what Zechariah saw:“a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, . . . ”(Zechariah 4:2). Later, Zechariah is told that“these seven”(presumably the lamps)“are the eyes of the ...
Galatians 3:1-14 New International Version Faith or Works of the Law 3 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Sp...
work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. James, Cephas [Peter] and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to theGentiles,and they to the circumcised.”—Galatians 2:...