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Which words do you feel the Holy Spirit pulling you toward? Dig into them to see what you can find to better understand this passage.
Read this section of Galatians alongside Genesis 16 and Genesis 21:1-14. How does the truth of one give further insight into the others?
Not quite ready to drop his point about Isaac and Ishmael, Paul returns again to their respective stories in Genesis.
Dig into the word definitions for weak, beggarly, and elements of Galatians 4:9. How do they compare to the strong, abundant life we have with Christ?
Read Galatians 4:13 with 2 Corinthians 2:3-5. How does the truth of one give further insight into the other?
Picking up where Paul left off in verse seven with the clear reminder that believers are sons and heirs of God through Christ, he continues with another reminder: You know God.
Dig into the word definitions of Galatians 4:5. What does it mean to be both redeemed and adopted?
Read Galatians 4:6 with Romans 5:5, and 8:9, 15-16. How does the truth of one give further insight into the other?
Paul has spent a good portion of his letter on Abraham’s actual biological seed as fulfilling God’s promise to him (a genealogical truth that Matthew traces for us in the first 16 verses of his book).
Read Galatians 3:19 alongside Acts 7:52 and Exodus 20:1. What do both Paul and Stephen mean by the delivery of the law from angels.
Read Galatians 3:15 AMPC with Hebrews 9:16- 22. How does the truth of one give further insight into the other?
Read Galatians 3:13 alongside Psalm 37:22 and John 19:38. Dig into the linguistics to discover how Jesus literally fulfills Paul’s point.
Compare the side-by-side passages with each of Paul’s arguments. With verses 6-9, read Genesis 12:-4 and 15:1-6. With verses 10-14, read Deuteronomy 21:23, 27:26, Habakkuk 2:4, and Leviticus 18:5.
If the Galatians had missed Paul’s emphatic tone throughout the first pages of this letter, he made sure they would not miss it now.
