The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honour me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.
Galatians 1:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel #– # Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I am surprised and astonished that you are so quickly turning renegade and deserting Him Who invited and called you by the grace (unmerited favor) of Christ (the Messiah) [and that you are transferring your allegiance] to a different [even an opposition] gospel. American Standard Version (1901) I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel; Common English Bible I’m amazed that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ to follow another gospel. Catholic Public Domain Version I wonder that you have been so quickly transferred, from him who called you into the grace of Christ, over to another gospel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. |
The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honour me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.
And he was amazed at their unbelief. He was going around the villages teaching.
‘This is an amazing thing! ’ the man told them. ‘You don’t know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.
On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way they are.’
Since they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.
We have also obtained access through him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
For you may have countless instructors in Christ, but you don’t have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
For if a person comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit, which you had not received, or a different gospel, which you had not accepted, you put up with it splendidly!
For we do not market the word of God for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.
For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin.
But when God, who from my mother’s womb set me apart and called me by his grace, was pleased
not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, ‘If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews? ’
I went up according to a revelation and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles, but did so privately to those recognised as leaders. I wanted to be sure I was not running, and had not been running, in vain.
But we did not give up and submit to these people for even a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would be preserved for you.
On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter was for the circumcised,
For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbour as yourself. ,
You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.
He called you to this through our gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
and the grace of our Lord overflowed, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
As I urged you when I went to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus so that you may instruct certain people not to teach false doctrine
He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.
You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
But as the one who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct;
His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.