Galatians (KJV)
6 chapters · 149 verses. Choose a chapter to read it in the King James Version.
About the Book of Galatians
Galatians urgently defends the gospel of justification by faith against those requiring law-observance for acceptance with God. It insists that Christians are justified and live by faith, free in Christ and led by the Spirit.
- Genre
- Epistle
- Author
- The apostle Paul
- First audience
- The churches of Galatia
How to read it: Read the letter as a passionate argument against a specific error; keep the occasion in view to grasp Paul's defense of grace.
It opens: “Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)” (Galatians 1:1)
Chapters
Key verses in Galatians
The verses of Galatians that the rest of Scripture cross-references most often.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Read Galatians with a guide
- Galatians: Free in Christ7 days through Paul's letter to the GalatiansAll 7 days in Galatians
- One New People: Tribe & Ethnicity7 days on tribe, ethnicity and unity in Christ2 of 7 days in Galatians
- Discerning True & False Teaching7 days on testing teaching by God's word1 of 7 days in Galatians
- Envy & Comparison7 days on contentment in a comparing world1 of 7 days in Galatians
- Free in Christ: Curses, Fear & the Cross7 days on freedom from fear through the cross1 of 7 days in Galatians
- Fruit of the Spirit7 days growing in the life of the Spirit1 of 7 days in Galatians