I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by 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? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—
As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain. Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,
Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the Lord, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,
who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching.
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