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Galatians 6:6-10 (view passage online)
Believers must gently restore a fallen brother and bear one another’s burdens. Everyone reaps what they sow, so we must sow to the Spirit to reap eternal life. We must not grow weary in doing good because we will reap a harvest in due season.
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Galatians 6:1-5 (view passage online)
God calls believers to liberty, not as an opportunity for the flesh but to serve one another through love. Loving your neighbor as yourself fulfills the entire law. Believers who walk in the Spirit overcome the desires of the flesh.
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Galatians 5:16-26 (view passage online)
Believers who walk in the Spirit do not fulfill the lust of the flesh. They produce the fruit of the Spirit, which includes love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Those who belong to Christ crucify the flesh with its passions and desires.
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Galatians 5:1-15 (view passage online)
Paul urges believers to stand fast in the liberty of Christ and reject those who hinder them. He warns that a little leaven leavens the whole lump and reminds them that faith works through love, not the law. Believers must walk in the Spirit to experience the reign of grace unto righteousness.
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Galatians 4:21-31 (view passage online)
The Hagar and Sarah illustration contrasts the flesh with the spirit. Sarah doubted God and tried the flesh, resulting in the bondwoman persecuting the free woman. Believers must cast out the bondwoman and stand fast in liberty, just as Hebrews 12 contrasts Mount Sinai with Mount Zion.
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Galatians 4:21-31 (view passage online)
Paul uses the allegory of Hagar and Sarah to illustrate the law versus the promise. Hagar represents Mount Sinai and bondage, while Sarah represents the promise and supernatural grace. God counted Abraham as righteous because he believed God.
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Galatians 4:1-20 (view passage online)
The law kept people under guard like children until faith arrived. God sent His Son in the fullness of time so believers could receive adoption as sons. God gives believers a new capacity and motive to fulfill the new covenant command to love one another.
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Galatians 3:10-18 (view passage online)
The law demands perfection and curses all who fail, but Christ redeemed us from this curse. The inheritance comes by the promise God gave 430 years before the law. The obsolete old covenant gives way to the new covenant and its better promises.
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Galatians 3:1-14 (view passage online)
Paul asks the Galatians who bewitched them into trying to perfect their spiritual beginning through the flesh. He reminds them that the just shall live by faith, not by the law. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.
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Galatians 2:18-21 (view passage online)
The law arouses sin to show our need for Christ. Paul died to the law and shared in the crucifixion of Christ so he might live to God. He lives by faith in the Son of God because seeking righteousness through the law makes Christ die in vain.