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. […]

“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 […]

“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, […]

“And none other of the Apostles sawe I [Paul], saue [except James] Iames the Lords brother. Nowe the things which I write vnto you, beholde, I witnes before God, that I lie not. After that, I went into the coastes of Syria and Cilicia” (Galations 1:19-21 1587 Geneva Version). Father, help us to not lie! […]

“Neither came I againe to Hierusalem [Jerusalem] to them which were Apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and turned againe vnto Damascus.Then after three yeeres I came againe to Hierusalem to visite Peter, and abode with him fifteene dayes” (Galations 1:17, 18 1587 Geneva Version). Father, this confirms that after Paul’s conversion into […]

“But when it pleased God (which had separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace) To reueile [reveal] his Sonne in me, that I should preach him among the Gentiles, immediatly I communicated not with flesh and blood” (Galations 1:15, 16 1587 Geneva Version). Father, if You can turn Paul’s heart […]