Jean Ann Williams | Author

“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 […]

“But though that we, or an Angel from heauen preach vnto you otherwise, then that which we haue preached vnto you, let him be accursed. As we sayd before, so say I now againe, If any man preach vnto you otherwise, then that ye haue receiued, let him be accursed. For nowe preach I mans […]

“I marueile [marvel] that ye are so soone remoued away vnto another Gospel, from him that had called you in the grace of Christ, Which is not another Gospel, saue that there be some which trouble you, and intend to peruert [pervert] the Gospel of Christ” (Galations 1:6, 7 1587 Geneva Version). Father, this so […]

“Nowe I pray vnto God that yee doe none euill [evil], not that we should seeme approued, but that ye should doe that which is honest: though we be as reprobates. For wee can not doe any thing against the trueth, but for the trueth” (2 Corinthians 13:7, 8 1587 Geneva Version). Father, Paul has […]