On the other hand, Paul was tireless in his fight against legalism and the idea that true spirituality involves attaining personal merit and religious self-righteousness. The book of Galatians is his sustained argument against the Judaizers. He warned: "There are many who are insubordinate, empty ...
The book of Galatians, written around AD 55, is Paul’s charter of freedom. He writes passionately and emotionally because he knows that freedom is at stake. He vehemently defends “the truth of the gospel” (Galatians 2:5,14), for the sake of the Gentile believers in Galatia and else...
Galatians 4Amplified Bible Sonship in Christ 4 Now what I mean [when I talk about children and their guardians] is this: as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave even though he is the [future owner and] master of all [the estate]; 2 but he is ...
Galatians 4-5 New International Version 4 What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. 2 The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. 3 So ...
you eventually have to face up to the consequences of your actions. This proverbial saying exists in various forms. Its biblical source is Galatians 6:7: ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap’. ...
” This idea is in the book of Ezekiel quite frequently also. Ezekiel 3 talks about telling people of their sin so that we may save their life. This does not mean their eternal life, but their physical, temporal life here on this earth. The exact same idea is in Ezekiel 18. Look ...
Some opt for Galatians; while others prefer 1 Thessalonians. I’m in the “others” group for reasons I won’t go into here. When Paul wrote his first letter to the Christians in Thessalonica (in Macedonia, an area of northern Greece), he began in this way: Paul, Silvanus, and ...
Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds 36When Jesus had left the crowd and gone indoors, his disciples came to him and said, “Tell us what the parable about the weeds in the field means.” 37Jesus answered, “The man who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man; 38the field is ...
In Isaiah 40:1-11 we read how the Lord God of Israel wants to deliver His people. The Lord does not give up on us because of repeated sinning, but is always
To reap is “to gather a crop” and to sow, “to plant seeds.” Throughout scripture, sowing is used as a metaphor for one’s actions and reaping for the results of such actions. The biblical meaning of this phrase comes from a passage in Galatians: “Don’t be misled — you ...