Key Scripture: Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. ~ Galatians 5:1

Galatians 5:1-13

¹ Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

² Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. ³ Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law. ⁴ You are alienated from Christ, you who desire

Key Scripture:  So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman. ~ Galatians 4:31

Galatians 4:19-31

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you— ²⁰ but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

²¹ Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? ²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman. ²³ However,

Key Scripture:  But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children. ~ Galatians 4:4-5

Galatians 4:1-18

¹ But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all, ² but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father. ³ So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the

Key Scripture: Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. ~ Galatians 3:21

Galatians 3:15-29

 ¹⁵ Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it. ¹⁶ Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring.^✡ He doesn’t say, “To descendants^✡ ”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”,^✡ which is

Key Scripture: He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? ~ Galatians 3:5

Galatians 3:1-14

 ¹ Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? ² I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? ³ Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the

Key Scripture: Yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. ~ Galatians 2:16

Galatians 2:11-21

¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. ¹² For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and

Key Scripture:  I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain. ~ Galatians 2:2

Galatians 2:1-10

¹ Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. ² I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running,

Key Scripture: For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. ~ Galatians 1:12

Galatians 1:11-24

¹¹But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not to man. ¹² For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹³ For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly

Key Scripture: I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”, but there isn’t another “good news.” ~ Galatians 1:6-7

Galatians 1:1-10

¹ Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ,^✡ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—² and all the brothers^✡ who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia: ³ Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver

Sunday: Naomi’s Instruction About Boaz: Ruth 3:1-5

Love culminating in a desire for the highest good in the person loved, even to the point of self-sacrifice, is illustrated in Naomi. Naomi instructed Ruth to lie down at the feet of Boaz. It was done discreetly and without sexual connotations. Ruth went there and by her action conveyed to Boaz her desire for him to marry her as her deceased husband’s next of kin.

Monday: Ruth’s Kinsman-Redeemer: Ruth 3:6-9

When Ruth asked Boaz to spread the corner of his garment over her, she was asking him to take her for his