Jean Ann Williams | Author

“And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first. And the trial of me which was in my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred: but ye receiued me as an Angel of God, yea, as Christ Iesus. What was then your felicitie [blessedness]? for I beare […]

“Ye obserue [observe] dayes, and moneths, and times and yeeres [years]. I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you [my] labour in vaine. Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all” (Galatians 4: 10-12 1587 Geneva Version).  Father, […]

“Wherefore then serueth the Law? It was added because of the transgressions, til the seed [Christ] came, vnto the which the promise was made: and it was ordeined [ordained] by Angels in the hande of a Mediatour [mediator which is Moses]” (Galations 3:19 1587 Geneva Version). Father, we are encouraged by the Old Testament predicting […]

“Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant [testament/Old Testament] when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate [cancel] it, or addeth any thing thereto [to it]” (Galations 3:15 1587 Geneva Version). Father, we understand You gave the Israelites a covenant, Old Testament, until Your precious Son came to […]

“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 […]