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Paul became an apostle through Jesus Christ and God the Father.
Believers in Jesus Christ have been delivered from this present evil age.
Paul is amazed that they are turning so quickly to a different gospel.
There is only one true gospel, the gospel of Christ.
Paul says anyone proclaiming a different gospel should be cursed.
Servants of Christ must seek the approval of God first.
Paul received the gospel of Christ by revelation from Jesus Christ directly to himself.
Paul was following Judaism zealously, persecuting the church of God and destroying it.
God was pleased to choose Paul from his mother’s womb to be his apostle.
God chose Paul as his apostle so that Paul would proclaim Christ among the Gentiles.
Finally, Paul went to Jerusalem and met the apostles Cephas and James.
The churches in Judea were hearing that Paul, who once persecuted the church, was now proclaiming the faith.
Paul spoke privately to the leaders of the church, explaining to them the gospel that he was proclaiming.
Titus was not required to be circumcised.
The false brothers desired to make Paul and his companions slaves to the law.
No, they added nothing to Paul’s message.
Paul was primarily sent to the uncircumcised, the Gentiles, to proclaim the gospel.
Peter was primarily sent to the circumcised, the Jews, to proclaim the gospel.
The leaders in Jerusalem gave Paul and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship to show their approval.
Peter stopped eating with the Gentiles, because he feared the men who had been circumcised.
Paul asked Cephas how he could force Gentiles to live like Jews when Cephas was living like a Gentile.
Paul said that no one is justified by the works of the law.
A person is justified before God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Paul says he shows himself actually to be a law breaker.
Paul said that Christ now lived in him.
Paul says the Son of God loved him and gave himself for Paul.
Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
Those who believe God are the sons of Abraham.
The scripture foresaw that the Gentiles would be justified by faith.
Those who rely on the works of the law to be justified are under a curse.
No one has been justified through the works of the law.
Christ redeemed us by becoming a curse for us so that the blessing upon Abraham might come to the Gentiles.
The “descendant” spoken of in the promise to Abraham was Christ.
No, the law did not void the promise made to Abraham.
The law came because of transgressions until Abraham’s descendant came.
The law in scripture imprisoned everyone under sin.
We are released from the imprisonment of the law by faith in Christ Jesus.
All who have been baptized into Christ have been clothed in Christ.
Jews, Greeks, slaves, free, male, and female are all made one in Christ Jesus.
The heir lives like a slave under guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.
At the right time, God sent forth his Son to redeem those under the law.
God adopted as sons the children who were under the law.
God sends forth the Spirit of his Son into the hearts of his children.
Before we know God, we are slaves to the spirits that rule the world, who are not gods at all.
Paul was perplexed that the Galatians were returning again to the ruling spirits of the world.
Paul fears that the Galatians will become slaves again, and that he has labored in vain over them.
When Paul first came to the Galatians, he had a physical illness.
Despite Paul’s problem, the Galatians received Paul as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
The false teachers are trying to separate the Galatians from Paul.
The false teachers are trying to put the Galatians back under the law.
Abraham had two sons, one from a slave woman and one from a free woman.
The Jerusalem above, the free woman, is the symbolic mother of Paul and the believing Galatians.
Believers in Christ are children of the promise.
The children of the flesh persecute the children of the promise.
The children of the slave woman do not inherit along with the children of the free woman.
Believers in Christ are children of the free woman.
For freedom Christ has set us free.
Paul said that if the Galatians became circumcised, Christ would not benefit them in any way.
Paul warned that all the Galatians who would seek to be justified by following the law would be alienated from Christ and would fall away from grace.
In Christ Jesus, only faith working through love means anything.
Paul is confident that the one who has confused the Galatians about the gospel will bear God’s judgment.
Paul says that in proclaiming circumcision, the stumbling block of the cross would be destroyed.
Believers are to not use their freedom in Christ as an opportunity for the flesh.
Believers are to use their freedom in Christ to serve one another in love.
The whole law is fulfilled in the commandment, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
Believers can live by the Spirit, and thus, not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
The Spirit and the flesh are opposed to each other within the believer.
Three examples of works of the flesh are any three of the following list: sexual immorality, impurity, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, rivalry, dissension, sectarian division, envy, drunkenness, and drunken riots.
Those who practice the works of the flesh will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh and its passions.
Those who are spiritual should restore that man in a spirit of gentleness.
Those who are spiritual must watch out that they are not also tempted.
Believers fulfill the law of Christ by carrying one another’s burdens.
A person can have something in himself to be proud of by examining his own work, without comparing himself to anyone else.
One who is taught the word must share all good things with his teacher.
Whatever a man spiritually plants he will harvest.
A man who plants to his own flesh harvests destruction out of his flesh.
Out of the Spirit a man who plants to the Spirit harvests eternal life.
A believer who continues doing good will reap a harvest.
Believers should especially do good to those of the household of faith.
Those who want to compel the believers to be circumcised do not want to be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Paul said that he was proud of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What is important is a new creation.
Paul wishes peace and mercy upon those who live by the rule of the new creation and upon the Israel of God.
Paul carried the marks of Jesus on his body.