Paul has more to say on the subject of slavery. In Galatians 5:1, Paul states that "It was for freedom that Christ has set us free" even though his passage 1 Corinthians 7:20-24 states "he who was a free man when he was called is Christ's slave." Paul appears unable to decide ...
Also, in relation to this, Paul writes that Jesus came “at the appointed time” (Galatians 4:4). Other New Testament authors say similar things. While there is truth with this answer, it really doesn’t answer the question. All it does it move the question back. If Jesus came at th...
Galatians 5:22 – 26 (ESV). But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong in Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we li...
In the process of sanctification, the Holy Spirit will produce these fruits: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22).God gave us these fruits to produce because He loves us. Jesus was the best example of a human who produc...
when his will is only to do his Father's will, when he is so lost in love with Love that he sacrifices self and ego, mind and heart, body and soul. It is of this ineffable union that Paul writes in Galatians 2:20, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,...
Peter’s actions created a huge problem. An identity crisis surfaced for many, including Barnabas. Paul writes, “I opposed him [Peter] to his face, for what he did was very wrong” (Galatians 2:11 NLT). This was Peter’s first cross-cultural coaching tip:Monocultural living breeds prej...
Paul likewise upheld the penal standards of the Mosaic judicial law (Acts 25:11).Here we have the first use of the phrase "Mosaic judicial law." This raises many questions. First, with regard to Paul inActs 25. An argument can be made that Paul did not "uphold the standards of the ...
in Galatians 5:19-21, and this is the passage that converted me to orthodoxy. I think maybe I’m the only person in history that read this passage and converted. But this is the passage that converted me to orthodoxy. And St. Paul writes, “Now the works of the flesh are evident,...
Paul writes that the love of Christ surpasses all knowledge (Ephesians 3:19). Someone who has the precious gift of prophecy, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and is able to convince a mountain to move out of his way, but has no love, is nothing (1 Corinthians 13:2),...
St. Paul explains exactly what he means by “faith in Christ Jesus” in the very next verse (verse 27). Galatians 3:27- “For as many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male...