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Galatians 3: 11-21 Paul's Defense Of His Apostleship

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Galatians 1:1-10 Introduction 1:1-5 Greeting 1:6-10 Why Paul sent the letter Galatians 1:11-2:21 Paul 's Defense of his Apostleship 1:11-12 Gospel received directly from God 1:13-17 His pre-Christian years and conversion 1:18-2:21 Paul and the other apostles 2:1-5 The council at Jerusalem 2:6-10 His sanction by James, Cephas, and John 2:11-21 His rebuke of Cephas at Antioch 2:11-13 Cephas ' hypocrisy 2:14-21 Speech to Cephas, Jews and Gentiles are justified through Christ Galatians 3:1-4:31 Defense of justification by faith 3:1-5 The personal Argument 3:1-4 How they received the Spirit 3:5 From whom they received the Spirit 3:6-25 The Scriptural argument 3:6-9 The example of Abraham 3:10-14 The curse of the Law 3:15-18 The priority of the Promise over the Law …show more content…

w 3:19-25 The purpose of the Law 3:26-4:7 The practical argument 3:26-29 Equality in the Body of Christ 4:1-7 Now they are Sons, not slaves 4:8-20 The sentimental argument 4:8-11 His fears over their returning to bondage 4:12-20 Their past and present relationships to him 4:21-31 The allegorical argument 4:21-24a An allegory for those who desire to be under the Law 24b-31 Symbolic of the two covenants; one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, and the other from the Jerusalem above which makes free Galatians 5:1-6:10 Defends Christian Liberty 5:1-6 A liberty that does not require circumcision 5:1-4 Circumcision is seeking circumcision through the law 5:5-6 Achiev righteousness with faith and love 5:7-15 A liberty that fulfills the law 5:7-12 Beware of those who would bind the Law 5:13-26 A liberty in which one is to be led by the

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