Jean Ann Williams | Author

“With my soule haue I desired thee in the night, and with my spirit within mee will I seeke thee in the morning: for seeing thy iudgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learne righteousnesse” (Isaiah 26:9 1587 Geneva Version). Father, this verse is beautiful. And does it not speak of […]

“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 […]

“For as many as are of the workes of the Lawe, are vnder [under] the curse: for it is written, ‘Cursed is euery man that continueth not in all things, which are written in the booke of the Law, to doe them’. And that no man is iustified by the Law in the sight of […]

“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)? […]

“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the trueth, to whome Iesus Christ before was described in your sight, and among you crucified” (Galations 3:1 1587 Geneva Version)? Father, help us to never fall away as these Galations did. Please help us to remember You are our strength, our peace. […]

“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, […]

“But neither yet Titus which was with me, though he were a Grecian, was compelled to be circumcised, To wit, for the false brethren which were craftily sent in, and crept in priuily [privately] to spie out our libertie, which we haue in Christ Iesus, that they might bring vs into bondage” (Galations 2:3, 4 […]