Galatians

Book Information

Author

Paul

Year

Around 48-55 AD

Category

Pauline Epistles

Summary

Galatians is a letter from the Apostle Paul addressing the early Christian communities in Galatia. Paul emphasizes the importance of faith in Jesus Christ over adherence to the Jewish law for salvation. He passionately defends the gospel of grace, arguing that believers are justified by faith and not by the works of the law. The letter encourages living by the Spirit, fostering love, joy, and peace, and highlights the unity and freedom found in Christ. It challenges readers to embrace true freedom and live a life of love and service.

Chapters

Galatians 2 - Paul Defends His Apostolic Authority and the Gospel of Grace

1. Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. 2. And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. 3. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:

Galatians 3 - Faith and the Law: The Promise Fulfilled Through Christ

1. O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2. This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3. Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?

Galatians 5 - Living in Freedom and Walking by the Spirit

1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 2. Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Galatians 6 - Bearing One Another's Burdens and Sowing to the Spirit

1. Brothers, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. 2. Bear you one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.