Galatians

If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.   『 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ .   But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.   For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ . 』 (Galatians 1:7-10) The reason the apostle Paul came to write Galatians was because of the Jewish adherents of the law. So, Paul wrote this letter to say that he cannot be saved by law, but by faith. In Acts 15:1 – 2, the apostles Paul and Barnabas taught the Bible in Antioch, and Jewishists appear. 『 certain men which came down from Jud æ a taught the brethren, and said, E...

Christian persecution by Jews   But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.   For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ .   For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.   But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace.   To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.   But other of the ap...

But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised 『 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto 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. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 』 (Galatians 2:1-4) After the Apostle Paul met Jesus in Damascus, he went to Arabia and then to Damascus again. And after three years there, he goes to Jerusalem to meet Peter. And he lived in his hometown "daso". Barnabas visited Paul in daso, was invited to go to Antioch, and Paul went to Antioch again with Barnabas. While working in An...

we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.   Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. (Galatians 2:5-10) 『 ...

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the l...