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Galatians · read by Zac Poonen
93 verses, in order. Only the verses Zac read aloud are shown.
Galatians 1
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Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead—Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,Read from ESV · (2 Corinthians) ch.1:1-1:19
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who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,Read from NKJV · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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For I certify to you, brothers, that the gospel I preached was not devised by man.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by His grace, was pleasedRead from NASB1995 · Seeing Jesus and the Father
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to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who came before me, but I went into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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They only heard the account: "The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
Galatians 2
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Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch1:1-Ch2:21
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If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.Read from NASB1995 · (Manitoba 2001) Jesus Seeks Needy People
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For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.Read from ESV · New Covenant - the Shadow and Reality - Part 2
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I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.Read from KJV · (Secret of Paul's Authority) 3. Paul Accepted the Cross
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I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
Galatians 3
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O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?Read from ESV · Knowing the Name of Jesus (Kannada)
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Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?Read from ESV · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?Read from NASB1995 · The Law Leads Us to Christ
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So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law."Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith."Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them."Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."Read from NKJV · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, "and to seeds," meaning many, but "and to your seed," meaning One, who is Christ.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.Read from NKJV · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.Read from NASB1995 · (Genesis) - Part 13
Galatians 4
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But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch2:1-Ch4:7
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Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!Read from ESV · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.Read from ESV · (Revelation) Revelation 11:16-12:17
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For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband."Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.Read from NASB1995 · (Genesis) - Part 19
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But what does the Scripture say? "Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman's son."Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.Read from NASB1995 · (Genesis) - Part 19
Galatians 5
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It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?Read from ESV · Preserving God's Standards
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A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.Read from ESV · Parables of Jesus - 05 Four Types of Backsliders
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I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch4:8-Ch5:13
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The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself."Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.Read from NKJV · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.Read from ESV · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;Read from NASB1995 · (Genesis) - Part 4
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idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,Read from NASB1995 · New Covenant - the Root of Sin - Part 4
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,Read from ESV · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Galatians
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Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
Galatians 6
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Carry one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.Read from ESV · Build Close Relationships In Your Family
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If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.Read from ESV · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.Read from ESV · Laws of the Spiritual Life #4 - the Law of Reaping
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Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.Read from NASB1995 · Laws of the Spiritual Life #4 - the Law of Reaping
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See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!Read from ESV · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.Read from NASB1995 · (Galatians) Ch5:14-Ch6:18
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But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.Read from NASB1995 · The Spirit and the Cross