Gary Gleans

                                                                                  Galatians 4:21-31 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?    For it is written that Abraham had two sons,   one by a slave woman and   one by a free woman.    But   the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while   the son of the free woman was born through promise.    Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two   covenants.   One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.    Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.    But ...

                                                                                  Galatians 4:12-20 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,   and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me   as an angel of God,   as Christ Jesus.    What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.    Have I then become your enemy by   telling you the truth? They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want...

                                                                                               Galatians 4:8-11 Formerly, when you   did not know God, you   were enslaved to those that by nature   are not gods.    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.   When the Lord sets us free from the sin in which we were all born and to which we were all enslaved, rejoicing should b...

                                                                                                 Galatians 4:1-7 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.    In the same way we also, when we were children,   were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.  But   when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son,   born   of woman, born   under the law,   to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive   adoption as sons.    And because you are sons, God has se...

                                                                                            Galatians 3:23-29 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law,   imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.    So then,   the law was our   guardian until Christ came,   in order that we might be justified by faith.    But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,   for in Christ Jesus   you are all sons of God, through faith.    For as many of you as   were baptized   into Christ have   put on Christ.    There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,   there is no male and femal...

                                                                                       Galatians 3:19-22 Why then the law?   It was added because of transgressions,   until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was   put in place through angels   by an intermediary.    Now   an intermediary implies more than one, but   God is one.    Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For   if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.    But the Scripture   imprisoned everything under sin, so that   the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given   to those who...

                                                                                       Galatians 3:15-18 To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.    Now   the promises were made   to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one,   “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.    This is what I mean: the law, which came   430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as   to make the promise void.    For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but   God gave it to Abraham by a ...

                                                                                       Galatians 3:10-14 For all who rely on works of the law are   under a curse; for it is written,   “Cursed be everyone who does not   abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”    Now it is evident that   no one is justified before God by the law, for   “The righteous shall live by faith.”  But the law is not of faith, rather   “The one who does them shall live by them.”  Christ   redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written,   “Cursed is everyone who is hanged   on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of ...

                                                                                       Galatians 3:1-9 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— just as   Abraham “believed God, an...

                                                                                  Galatians 2:15-21 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not   Gentile sinners;   yet we know that   a person is not justified by works of the law   but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law,   because by works of the law no one will be justified.   But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found   to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!    For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.    For through the law I   died to the law, so ...