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)? […]

“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 […]

“But by them which seemed to be great, I [Paul] was not taught (whatsoeuer they were in time passed, I am nothing the better: God accepteth no mans person) for they that are the chiefe, did adde nothing to me aboue that I had [only the Lord added]. But contrariwise, when they saw that ye […]

“To whom [false brethren/disciples] we [Paul & his helpers] gaue not place by subiection [subjected themselves to them] for an houre, that the trueth of the Gospel might continue with you” (Galations 2:5 1587 Geneva Version). Father, as Paul did, we must not allow false teachers/disciples into our lives or into the lives of our […]

“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 […]

“For I [Paul] was vnknowen by face vnto the Churches of Iudea [Judea], which were in Christ. But they had heard onely some say, ‘Hee [he] which persecuted vs [us] in time past, nowe preacheth the faith which before he destroyed’. And they glorified God for me” (Galations 1:22-24 1587 Geneva Version). Father, if Paul, […]