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0:00 Galatians 1. Paul’s Defense of His Apostleship and the True Gospel
3:18 Galatians 2. Justification by Faith, Not by Works
7:07 Galatians 3. The Law and the Promise: Faith Brings Righteousness
11:50 Galatians 4. Sons and Heirs Through Christ, Not the Law
16:04 Galatians 5. Freedom in Christ and the Fruit of the Spirit
19:42 Galatians 6. Doing Good and Boasting Only in the Cross
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The Epistle to the Galatians, commonly known as Galatians, is the ninth book of the New Testament and one of Paul’s most passionate and urgent letters. Written around AD 48–55, it was addressed to the churches in Galatia, a region in modern-day Turkey. The letter was written in response to false teachers, known as Judaizers, who were leading the Galatian believers astray by insisting that they must follow the Mosaic Law, including circumcision, to be saved. Paul forcefully defends the true gospel of grace, arguing that salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ alone, not by works of the Law.
Paul begins by asserting his apostolic authority, explaining that his message was not taught by men but received directly from Jesus Christ. He expresses shock that the Galatians are turning to a different gospel, warning them that any gospel other than the one he preached is false. He recounts his personal testimony, showing how he once persecuted the Church but was transformed by God’s grace, demonstrating that salvation is by God’s calling, not human effort.
One of the central themes of Galatians is justification by faith. Paul reminds the Galatians that even Abraham, the father of Israel, was justified by faith before the Law was given. He argues that the Law was never meant to save but rather to reveal sin and point people to Christ. Now that Christ has come, believers are no longer under the bondage of the Law but are justified by faith in Him.
Paul famously declares, “I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” This verse encapsulates the heart of the gospel—that Christ’s sacrifice is sufficient, and believers live by faith in Him, not by works.
He strongly rebukes the Galatians for returning to legalism, calling them foolish for thinking they could start their Christian life by faith but then try to earn righteousness through works. He explains that those who trust in the Law for salvation are under a curse, because no one can perfectly obey it. However, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us, fulfilling the Law’s demands on our behalf.
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đź“– Chapters
0:00 Galatians 1. Paul’s Defense of His Apostleship and the True Gospel
3:18 Galatians 2. Justification by Faith, Not by Works
7:07 Galatians 3. The Law and the Promise: Faith Brings Righteousness
11:50 Galatians 4. Sons and Heirs Through Christ, Not the Law
16:04 Galatians 5. Freedom in Christ and the Fruit of the Spirit
19:42 Galatians 6. Doing Good and Boasting Only in the Cross
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The Epistle to the Galatians, commonly known as Galatians, is the ninth book of the New Testament and one of Paul’s most passionate and urgent letters. Written around AD 48–55, it was addressed to the churches in Galatia, a region in modern-day Turkey. The letter was written in response to false teachers, known as Judaizers, who were leading the Galatian believers astray by insisting that they must follow the Mosaic Law, including circumcision, to be saved. Paul forcefully defends the true gospel of grace, arguing that salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ alone, not by works of the Law.
Paul begins by asserting his apostolic authority, explaining that his message was not taught by men but received directly from Jesus Christ. He expresses shock that the Galatians are turning to a different gospel, warning them that any gospel other than the one he preached is false. He recounts his personal testimony, showing how he once persecuted the Church but was transformed by God’s grace, demonstrating that salvation is by God’s calling, not human effort.
One of the central themes of Galatians is justification by faith. Paul reminds the Galatians that even Abraham, the father of Israel, was justified by faith before the Law was given. He argues that the Law was never meant to save but rather to reveal sin and point people to Christ. Now that Christ has come, believers are no longer under the bondage of the Law but are justified by faith in Him.
Paul famously declares, “I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” This verse encapsulates the heart of the gospel—that Christ’s sacrifice is sufficient, and believers live by faith in Him, not by works.
He strongly rebukes the Galatians for returning to legalism, calling them foolish for thinking they could start their Christian life by faith but then try to earn righteousness through works. He explains that those who trust in the Law for salvation are under a curse, because no one can perfectly obey it. However, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us, fulfilling the Law’s demands on our behalf.
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00:00The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians
00:03Chapter 1
00:05Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who
00:15raised him from the dead, and all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia.
00:21Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself
00:29for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the
00:35will of God and our Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
00:42I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you, and to the grace of Christ,
00:49unto another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that trouble you, and would
00:55pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
01:02gospel unto you, than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
01:09As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that
01:17ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men or God, or do I seek to
01:26please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But I certify
01:35you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received
01:42it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. For ye have
01:49heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted
01:57the church of God, and wasted it, and profited in the Jews' religion, above many my equals in
02:05mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it
02:12pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal
02:19His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with
02:26flesh and blood. Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me, but I went
02:33into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem
02:41to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none save James,
02:50the Lord's brother. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God I lie not.
02:57Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and was unknown by face under the
03:03churches of Judea which were in Christ. But they had heard only, that he which persecuted
03:10us in times past, now preached the faith which once he destroyed, and they glorified God in
03:17me. Chapter 2
03:21Then fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with
03:28me also. And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the
03:36Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run,
03:43or had run in vain. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to
03:49be circumcised, and that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy
03:57out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage. To whom we gave
04:04place by subjection, no, not for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
04:11But of these who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me, God accepteth
04:18no man's person. For they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me. But
04:25contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel
04:33of a circumcision was unto Peter, for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the
04:39circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles. And when James, Cephas, and John,
04:46who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the
04:53right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. Only they
05:00would that we should remember the poor, the same which I also was forward to do. But when Peter was
05:08come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that
05:14certain came from James he did eat with the Gentiles. But when they were come he withdrew,
05:21and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled
05:27likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw
05:34that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them
05:40all, If thou being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why
05:47compelest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners, are the
05:55Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ,
06:02even as we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ,
06:09and not by the works of the law. For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
06:15But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore
06:23Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed,
06:30I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
06:40I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which
06:49I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
06:57I do not frustrate the grace of God. For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
07:08Chapter 3
07:09O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes
07:17Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you. This only would I learn of you, received
07:26ye the Spirit, by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith. Are ye so foolish? Having begun
07:34in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in vain,
07:42if it be yet in vain? He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you,
07:50doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God,
07:57and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith,
08:04the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
08:11heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be
08:20blessed. So then, they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are under the
08:29works of the law, are under the curse, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in
08:37all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the
08:43law in the sight of God, it is evident. For the just shall live by faith, and the law is not of faith,
08:53but the man that doeth them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
09:03us. For it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. That the blessing of Abraham might
09:12come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
09:19faith. Brethren, I speak after the manner of men, though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be
09:26confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth thereto. Now to Abraham, and his seed were the promises made.
09:36He saith not, and to seeds, as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. In this I say,
09:46that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was four hundred and
09:53thirty years after cannot disannull, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the
10:00inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise, but God to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then
10:09serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom
10:16the promise was made. And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator
10:23is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid.
10:33For if there had been a law given, which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been
10:41by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ
10:49might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up
10:57unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster, to bring us
11:05unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under
11:14a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you,
11:24as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond
11:33nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's,
11:44then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
11:50Chapter 4
11:52Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be
11:59Lord of all. But is under tutors and governors, until the time appointed of a father. Even so we,
12:08when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. But when the fullness of
12:14the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that
12:22were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons,
12:30God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art
12:37no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Howbeit then,
12:46when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that
12:53ye have known God, or rather, are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements,
13:01whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
13:09I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain. Brethren, I beseech you,
13:18be as I am, for I am as ye are. Ye have not injured me at all. You know how through infirmity
13:27of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. And my temptation, which was in my flesh,
13:34ye despised not, nor rejected, but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
13:42Where is then the blessedness ye spake, O? For I bear you record, that, if it had been possible,
13:49ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemy,
13:56because I tell you the truth? They zealously affect you, but not well. Yea, they would exclude you,
14:05that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing,
14:12and not only when I am present with you. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until
14:18Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice, for I stand
14:26in doubt of you. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written
14:34that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman. But he who was of the
14:43bondwoman was born after the flesh, but he of a free woman was by promise. Which things are an
14:50allegory? For these are the two covenants, the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,
14:58which is Agar. For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is,
15:06and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us
15:16all. For it is written, Rejoice thou barren that bearest not, break forth and cry thou that travailest
15:24not, for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now we brethren,
15:31as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then, he that was born after the flesh
15:38persecuted him that was born after the spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless, what saith the
15:46scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with
15:55the son of the free woman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
16:04Chapter 5. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not
16:13entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I, Paul, say unto you, that if ye be circumcised,
16:22Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is
16:30a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified
16:39by the law. Ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness
16:47by faith. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith
16:56which worketh by love. Ye did run well. Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
17:05This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
17:12I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded. But
17:18he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment whosoever he be. And I, brethren, if I yet
17:26preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offence of the cross ceased. I would
17:35they were even cut off which trouble you. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty. Only
17:42use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled
17:52in one word, even in this. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if ye bite and devour
18:02one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, walk in the
18:09spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the
18:16spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary the one to the other,
18:22so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led by the spirit, ye are not under
18:31the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these? Adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
18:39lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
18:51heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. Of the which I tell you before,
18:59as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom
19:07of God. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness,
19:17faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law. And they that are Christs have crucified
19:25the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.
19:36Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
19:43Chapter 6. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual,
19:50resore such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
19:59Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be
20:07something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work,
20:14and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and not in another. For every man shall bear his
20:22own burden. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good
20:29things. Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
20:39For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption. But he that soweth to the
20:47spirit, shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well-doing. For in due
20:55season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men,
21:04especially unto them who are of a household of faith. Ye see how large a letter I have written
21:11unto you with mine own hand. As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you
21:18to be circumcised, only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For neither
21:25they themselves who are circumcised keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised, that they may
21:33glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21:42by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision
21:51availeth any thing nor uncircumcision, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according
22:00to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble
22:10me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your
22:21spirit. Amen.
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