Galatians

6 chapters

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1. 1After the foundation laid in the salutation, 6 he exclaimeth against the Galatians, and their false apostles, 11 considering that the Gospel which he preached to them, he had it immediately of Christ himself. 13 Which to show he beginneth to tell the story of his conversion and preaching since then, that as he learned nothing of the other Apostles, so yet he had their approbation.
2. 2He telleth furth the story begun in the last chapter, and how he reprehended Peter, 15 and then specially urgeth the ensample of the Christian Jews, who sought unto Christ for justification, and that by warrant also of their Law itself, as also because otherwise Christ's death had been needless.
3. 3By their own conversion at the first, 6 and by the example of Abraham, and promise made to him, he showeth that the way to obtain the benediction, is to seek unto God by faith in Christ. 10 Seeing also that the Law curseth every one that hath not evermore kept the Law. 15 And, that the Law was not given to alter God's testament, 19 but to convince the Jews of sin, 23 and so to be their pedagogue or leader unto Christ, 25 and then to cease.
4. 4That the Law was fit for the time of nonage: but being now come to full age, to desire such servitude is absurd, specially for Gentiles. 12 And that he uttereth this not of any displeasure, but to tell them the truth, remembering how passingly they honoured him when he was present, and exhorting them therefore not to harken to the false Apostle in his absence. 21 By the allegory also of Abraham's two sons, showing, that the children of the Jews' Synagogue shall not inherit, but we who are the children of the free woman: that is, of the Cath. Church of Christ.
5. 5Against the lie of the false Apostles, he protesteth his mind of Circumcision. 13 and testifieth, that they are called to liberty. But yet lest any misconster Christian liberty, he telleth them that they shall not inherit the kingdom, unless they abstain from the works of the flesh, which are all mortal sins: and do the fruitful works of the Spirit, fulfilling all the commandments of the Law by Charity.
6. 6If any do sin, the rest that do the works of the Holy Ghost, must not therefore take pride in themselves, but rather make humility of it, partly by fearing their own fall, partly by looking straitly to their own works. 6 He exhorteth earnestly to good works, assuring them that they shall reap none other than here they sow. 11 With his own hand he writeth, telling them, the true cause why those false Apostles preach circumcision, to be only to please the Jews: 17 and a plain argument that he preacheth it not, to be this, that he is persecuted of the Jews.