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I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel;
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Backsliding » Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel
You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
Truth » Adaption of » Attitude of wicked toward
and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
They
They
And does not speak the truth,
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They
and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
Truth » Attitude of the wicked toward
and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
They
They
And does not speak the truth,
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They
and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
Truth » Should be obeyed
but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.