For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Galatians 3:1 - Revised Standard Version O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O YOU poor and silly and thoughtless and unreflecting and senseless Galatians! Who has fascinated or bewitched or cast a spell over you, unto whom–right before your very eyes–Jesus Christ (the Messiah) was openly and graphically set forth and portrayed as crucified? American Standard Version (1901) O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? Common English Bible You irrational Galatians! Who put a spell on you? Jesus Christ was put on display as crucified before your eyes! Catholic Public Domain Version O senseless Galatians, who has so fascinated you that you would not obey the truth, even though Jesus Christ has been presented before your eyes, crucified among you? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you? |
For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;
And he said to them, “O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.
But they have not all obeyed the gospel; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”
but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel—
But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?
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 beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more?
But if I, brethren, still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.
Do you thus requite the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing; he has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go.
and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
For all nations have drunk the wine of her impure passion, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich with the wealth of her wantonness.”
But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which he commanded you; for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel for ever.