The Strand Study Bible

Written From Ephesus During Paul’s Third Missionary Journey

GALATIANS 5:20 - 6:18

1958

for in due season we shall reap, if we 20 faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, 21 let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. 11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. 12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, 22 they constrain you to be cir- cumcised; only lest they should suffer 23 persecution for the cross of Christ. 13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumci- sion availeth any thing, nor uncircumci- sion, but a 24 new creature. 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the 25 Israel of God. 17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the 26 marks of the Lord Jesus. 18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

1 uncleanness, 2 lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, 3 vari- ance, 4 emulations, wrath, strife, 5 sedi- tions, 6 heresies 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, 7 re- vellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, 8 that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the SPIRIT is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, 9 temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have cruci- fied 10 the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 11 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Galatians 6 How to treat a Christian who has fallen Date Written – c. AD 54 1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, 12 restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; consider- ing thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 13 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and 14 so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be 15 something, 16 when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For every man shall bear his own bur- den. 6 Let him that is taught in the word 17 communicate unto him 18 that teacheth in all good things. God’s law of sowing and reaping is constant 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be 19 weary in well doing:

1. or, “moral impurity” 2. or, “wantonness; shameless conduct” – Rom 13:13 & II Pet 2:18 3. or, “strife; factions; discord” 4. or, “jealousy” 5. or, “divisions; splits” 6. or, “choices based on preferences” 7. or, “wild parties” 8. I Cor 6:9-10 & 15:50 & Eph 5:5 9. or, “self-control” - I Tim 1:9-10 10. Rom 6:6 11. Phil 2:3 12. Jn 8:3-11 & 13:14 & Jms 5:19-20 13. Rom 15:1 14. Jn 13:34 & 15:12, 17 & I Cor 9:21 & Jms 2:8 15. that is, “more spiritual than others” – vs. 1 16. I Pet 4:18 17. or, “share with” 18. Lev 10:8-11 & Deut 24:8 & 33:8-10 19. or, “lose heart” – Lk 18:1 & I Cor 15:58 & II Thess 3:13 20. or, “don’t relax” – Heb 12:5b 21. Prov 3:27 22. Acts 15:1 & Gal 2:3

BLACK SEA

GALATIA

Ephesus •

Antioch •

23. Gal 5:11 24. Gal 5:25 25. or, “Jewish Christians” 26. or, “stigma; scars suffered in persecution”

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Jerusalem •

Paul sends a letter to the Galatian - Map #51 5:21 There are some post-Jewish MESSIANIC movements ( Gal 3:1-3 ) that have tried to use the last part of this Scripture to prove that “works” are essential to keeping one’s salvation. They are not. Paul did not mean here that saved people could lose their salvation simply because they committed one of these sins. That would contradict everything Paul taught ( Phil 1:6 , II Tim 1:12 and Eph 1:13-14 ), as well as our LORD ( Jn 10:28-29 ). What Paul meant here was that the sins that keep people out of Heaven ought not to be practiced by those who are headed there. Christians who continue to choose to live in the flesh instead of the SPIRIT shall forfeit their right to rule and reign with Christ in the Millennium (the meaning behind, “ shall not inherit the