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Galatians 4:1-11, pt.2
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So through God you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then an heir. Gal. 4:6-7
Galatians 4:1-11, pt.1
So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe. Gal. 4:3
The Spiritual Was More Substantial Than the Material for the Ancients
David Bentley Hart’s discussion of Paul’s distinction between the σῶμα ψυχικόν (psychical body) and the σῶμα πνευματικόν (spiritual body) in 1 Corinthians 15:35-54.
Galatians 3:15-30, pt.2
So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian. Gal. 3:24-25
Galatians 3:15-30, pt.1
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal. 3:28
Galatians 3:1-18, pt.2
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you. Gal. 3:1
Galatians 3:1-18, pt.1
Thus Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham. Gal. 3:6-7
Galatians 2:15-21, pt.2
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. Gal. 2:20a
Galatians 2:15-21, pt.1
A man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law. Gal. 2:16
Galatians 2:1-14, pt.2
James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised; only they would have us remember the poor, which very thing I was eager to do. Gal. 2:9-10
Galatians 2:1-14, pt.1
And from those who were reputed to be something (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who were of repute added nothing to me; but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised. Gal. 2:6-7
Galatians 1:10-24, pt.2
But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace . . . Gal. 1:15