Author & Audience
This apostle wrote Galatians to defend the true gospel and his calling from Christ.
Who is Paul?
Galatians teaches that a person is not justified by works of the law but by this, resting only in Christ.
What is faith in Jesus Christ?
Paul asks, “Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with” this?
What is faith?
Paul says, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but” this person lives in me.
Who is Christ?
Paul says, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in” this person.
Who is Christ Jesus?
Paul says he is not sent from men or through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father in this opening chapter.
Paul says he is not sent from men or through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father in this opening chapter.
In Galatians 2:16, Paul repeats three times that no one is justified by these, but by faith in Christ.
What are works of the law?
Paul uses Abraham as an example that people are counted righteous by this, not by keeping the law.
What is believing/faith?
In Galatians 3, those who are baptized into Christ have “put on” this, like a new identity or clothing.
What is Christ?
The Galatians are acting so foolishly that Paul asks who has done this to them, as if they were under a spell.
What is “bewitched” them?
Paul writes “to the churches” in this region, not just to one church building.
What is Galatia?
This Reformation doctrine, central in Galatians, teaches we are declared righteous by faith alone in Christ alone.
What is justification by faith alone (sola fide)?
Paul says “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by” doing this for us.
What is becoming a curse for us (being crucified for us)?
Paul teaches that if you are led by this Person, you are not under the law.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Paul confronts this apostle “to his face” in Antioch because he stopped eating with Gentiles out of fear.
Who is Peter (Cephas)?
Instead of thanking God for the Galatians, Paul is “astonished” that they are so quickly deserting God for a different one of these.
What is a different gospel?
Paul says, “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then” this would have happened “for no purpose.”
What is Christ died for no purpose?
According to Galatians, the law was added “because of” these, to show our sin and need for Christ.
What are transgressions (sins)?
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are called this in Galatians 5.
What is the fruit of the Spirit?
True or False: Human effort can be added to grace?
What is FALSE?
Paul warns that even if this kind of heavenly being preached a different gospel, he should be “accursed.”
What is an angel from heaven?
The false teachers wanted Gentile Christians to add this Old Testament sign, along with law-keeping, to be fully accepted.
What is circumcision?
“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of” this.
What is slavery?
Paul commands believers to “walk by the Spirit,” and not “gratify” these desires.
What are the desires of the flesh?
Paul ends Galatians saying that neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but this “new” thing does.
What is a new creation?