Galatians 1:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

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  • 2 Cor 11:4 : 4 For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.
  • Gal 5:7-8 : 7 You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true? 8 This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.
  • Ps 106:13 : 13 But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
  • John 9:30 : 30 The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
  • 1 Cor 4:15 : 15 For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.
  • Gal 3:1-5 : 1 O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross? 2 Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh? 4 Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose. 5 He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?
  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again? 10 You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years. 11 I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose. 12 My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong; 13 But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time; 14 And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15 Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.
  • Acts 15:11 : 11 But we have faith that we will get salvation through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way as they.
  • Rom 5:2 : 2 Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.
  • Jer 2:12-13 : 12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord. 13 For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
  • Mark 6:6 : 6 And he was greatly surprised because they had no faith. And he went about the country places teaching.
  • 2 Thess 2:14 : 14 And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 1:3 : 3 It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,
  • 1 Tim 1:14 : 14 And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
  • 2 Tim 2:1 : 1 So then, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Pet 1:15 : 15 But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;
  • 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;
  • Rev 22:21 : 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. So be it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 1:7-12
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    7Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

    8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.

    9As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him.

    10Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

    11Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

    12For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 11:3-5
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    3But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

    4For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.

    5For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

  • Col 1:5-6
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    5Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

    6Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

  • 4You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • 1Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,

  • 14And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 5To whom be the glory for ever and ever. So be it.

  • Gal 1:2-3
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    2And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

    3Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 14But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

  • 11Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.

  • 3It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,

  • 23If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

  • 1O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

  • 6From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

  • 4For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • Gal 1:15-16
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    15But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

    16To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

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    5Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

    6And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

  • Gal 5:7-8
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    7You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

    8This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.

  • 1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

  • Phil 1:16-17
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    16These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

    17But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.

  • 6Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:

  • 17But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 9For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

  • 1Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

  • 5Because of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now;

  • 9But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

  • 4And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • 2If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,

  • 9Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

  • 9Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

  • 14Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

  • 4I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

  • 17For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

  • 4And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

  • 6As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

  • 10I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.

  • 1We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.