Jean Ann Williams | Author

“Yea rather as Abraham beleeued God, and it was imputed to him for righteousnes. Knowe ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham” (Galations 3:6, 7 1587 Geneva Version). Father, for us Gentiles we have been grafted into the family of our Lord if we have accepted His […]

“Haue ye suffered [as Disciples of Christ] so many things in vaine? If so be it be euen in vaine. He [Disciple of Christ] therefore that ministreth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it through the workes of the Law, or by the hearing of faith preached” (Galatians 3:4, 5 […]

“This only would I learne of you, Receiued ye the Spirit by the workes of the Lawe [Old Testament], or by the hearing of faith preached [Christ’s teachings]? Are ye so foolish, that after ye haue begun in the Spirit, ye would now be made perfect by the flesh” (Galations 3:2, 3 1587 Geneva Version)? […]

“I doe not abrogate [abolish] the grace of God: for if righteousnes be by the Lawe [Old Testament], then Christ dyed [died] without a cause” (Galations 2:21 Geneva Version). Father, this verse makes it plain that Your Son came to bring life for those willing to be saved. That the Old Testament prophesied about His […]

“I am crucified with Christ, but I liue [live], yet not I any more, but Christ liueth in me: and in that that I now liue in the flesh, I liue by the faith in the Sonne of God, who hath loued me, and giuen him selfe for me” (Galations 2:20 1587 Geneva Version). Father, […]

“For if I build againe [his devotion to the Jewish laws] the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser. For I through the Lawe am dead to the Lawe, that I might liue [live] vnto God” (Galations 2:18, 19 1587 Geneva Version). Father, we must never look back! Please help us […]

“We which are Iewes [Jews] by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowe that a man is not iustified by the works of the Law, but by ye faith of Iesus Christ, euen we, I say, haue beleeued in Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ, & not by […]

“And the other Iewes [Judaens] played the hypocrites likewise with him [Peter], in so much that Barnabas was led away with them by that their hypocrisie. But when I saw, that they went not ye right way to the trueth of ye Gospel, I sayd vnto Peter before all men, ‘If thou being a Iewe […]

“And when Peter was come to Antiochia, I withstood him to his face: for he was to be condemned. For before that certaine came fro [from James] Iames, he [Peter] ate with the Gentiles: but when they [James] were come, he withdrew & separated himselfe, fearing them which were of the Circumcision [Judaens]” (Galations 2:11, […]

“(For he [the Lord] that was mightie by Peter in the Apostleship ouer the circumcision, was also mightie by me toward the Gentiles) And when Iames [James], and Cephas, and Iohn [John], knew of the grace that was giuen vnto me, which [they] are counted to be pillars, they gaue to me and to Barnabas […]