Book of Galatians
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40 free Book of Galatians trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Galatians is one of the shortest and sharpest books in the New Testament. Paul writes to churches he founded himself, alarmed that rival teachers are telling Gentile believers to take on the Jewish law, and he argues back with his own life story, the example of Abraham and some of the most quoted lines in the Bible. This quiz covers all six chapters: the people Paul names and the places he travelled, the arguments about faith and law in chapters 3 and 4, and the practical teaching on freedom and life by the Spirit in chapters 5 and 6. A few questions step outside the text to ask where Galatia was, who lived there and how the book shaped later Christian history. It suits Bible study groups, Sunday school classes, church quiz nights and anyone reading Galatians who wants to check what stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation tied to its verse.
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Q 01Galatians 5:22 lists love, joy, peace and six more qualities as the what of the Spirit?
Fruit
Fruit is singular in Paul's Greek, a single crop of nine qualities, set against the much longer list of acts of the flesh just before it.
Q 02Which proverb about consequences comes from Galatians 6:7, where Paul warns that God is not mocked?
You reap what you sow
You reap what you sow is the modern form of Paul's line, which he applies at once: sowing to the flesh brings destruction, sowing to the Spirit eternal life.
Q 03Paul's Galatians took their name from which European people who migrated east in the 270s BC?
Celts
Celts gave the region its name, and their descendants still kept Gaulish features of culture and language in Paul's day.
Q 04After calling the Galatians foolish in Galatians 3:1, Paul asks who has done what to them?
Bewitched
Bewitched is his charge, and he follows it with a pointed question: did they receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
Q 05Galatians 4:15 says the Galatians would once have torn out what and given them to Paul?
Their eyes
Their eyes is how Paul measures the Galatians' early devotion, just before asking whether telling them the truth has now made him their enemy.
Q 06In Galatians 5:4, Paul says those trying to be justified by the law have fallen away from what?
Grace
Grace is what they have fallen from, the same wording as the everyday idiom for a loss of status, which first alluded to losing God's favour.
Q 07In which city does Galatians 2 say Paul opposed Cephas to his face for leaving Gentile tables?
Antioch
Antioch was the scene: Cephas ate with Gentiles there until certain visitors arrived, then drew back for fear of the circumcision group.
Q 08In Galatians 6:11, what does Paul point out about the closing lines he writes with his own hand?
Their large letters
Their large letters mark the point where Paul takes the pen from his scribe, a normal feature when ancient senders added a few words themselves.
Q 09In Galatians 4:6 the Spirit in believers' hearts cries which Aramaic word Jesus used in Gethsemane?
Abba
Abba means father, and it appears only three times in the Greek New Testament, each time followed at once by its translation.
Q 10In Galatians 5:12, what does Paul wish the agitators pressing circumcision would go on to do?
Emasculate themselves
Emasculate themselves is the barbed wish, and in the very next verse Paul turns to telling readers to serve one another in love.
Q 11Galatians 1:8 curses anyone preaching a contrary gospel, even Paul himself or which messenger?
An angel from heaven
An angel from heaven would not be exempt, and Paul thinks the point worth making twice, repeating the curse in the very next verse.
Q 12Galatians 1:17 says that after his calling Paul went into Arabia and later returned to which city?
Damascus
Damascus is where he returned, and he stresses that three years passed before he went up to Jerusalem to meet the earlier apostles.
Q 13Galatians 1:19 says the only apostle Paul saw besides Cephas was which man, the Lord's brother?
James
James is the one he names, during a fifteen-day stay with Cephas that Paul swears before God he is describing truthfully.
Q 21Galatians 3:28 names three pairs made one in Christ: Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, and which third?
Male nor female
Male nor female completes the trio, in a verse still argued over: some read it as being about standing before God, others as about how people treat each other now.
Q 22Galatians 3:24 pictures the law as which household figure, in charge only until faith came?
Guardian
Guardian is Paul's image for the law's temporary job, and he adds that before faith came people were held in custody, locked up until it was revealed.
Q 23Galatians 3:13 quotes Deuteronomy's line that a curse rests on everyone who meets which fate?
Hung on a tree
Q 14Galatians 2:3 says which Greek companion of Paul was not compelled to be circumcised in Jerusalem?
Titus
Titus was taken along when Paul went up again after fourteen years, and Paul says he did not yield to the false brothers for a moment.
Q 15Galatians 2:13 says even which companion of Paul was led astray when Cephas shunned Gentile meals?
Barnabas
Barnabas had gone up to Jerusalem beside Paul, which makes his slip sting: the other Jewish believers had already joined in the hypocrisy.
Q 16Galatians 2:9 says three Jerusalem leaders who shook hands with Paul were reputed to be what?
Pillars
Pillars is the reputation Paul reports, and he says the three agreed that he should go to the Gentiles while they went to the circumcised.
Q 17In Galatians 2:10, the Jerusalem leaders asked only that Paul and his mission remember which group?
The poor
The poor were their single request, and Paul adds that this was the very thing he was already eager to do.
Q 18Galatia, whose churches received Galatians, lay in the central highlands of which modern country?
Turkey
Turkey covers the old region, which roughly matches the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir and had ancient Ancyra as its capital.
Q 19Which reformer's belief in justification by faith was shaped in great part by his reading of Galatians?
Martin Luther
Martin Luther put the distinction between law and gospel at the heart of his Lectures on Galatians, a theme that shaped Protestant readings of Paul for centuries.
Q 20Which manuscript from about AD 200 is the earliest reasonably complete surviving copy of Galatians?
Papyrus 46
Papyrus 46 was copied roughly 150 years after Paul wrote, and its leaves are now split between the Chester Beatty Papyri and the University of Michigan.
Hung on a tree is the phrase Paul borrows to argue that Christ redeemed people from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for them.
Q 24Galatians 3:16 argues that the promises to Abraham name a single what, meaning Christ, not many?
Seed
Seed is singular in the promise, Paul argues, so it points to one person, and he adds that the law arrived 430 years later without cancelling it.
Q 25Galatians 3:11 quotes the line that the righteous will live by faith from which minor prophet?
Habakkuk
Habakkuk supplies the line, which the Bible's later books quote twice more, at Romans 1:17 and Hebrews 10:38.
Q 26Galatians 4:7 says a believer is no longer a slave but a son, and so is also what?
An heir
An heir is the conclusion of Paul's picture of a child who, until the date set by the father, lives no differently from a slave.
Q 27Galatians 4:13 says what personal trouble first led Paul to preach the gospel to the Galatians?
An illness
An illness brought him, and though it was a trial to them, Paul recalls that the Galatians welcomed him as if he were Christ Jesus himself.
Q 28In Galatians 4:19, Paul compares his anguish over the Galatians to the pains of which ordeal?
Childbirth
Childbirth is the startling image, with Paul cast as a woman in labour until Christ is formed in his readers, whom he calls his children.
Q 29In Galatians 4, which slave woman who bore Abraham a son stands for a covenant of slavery?
Hagar
Hagar is one half of Paul's allegory of two covenants, and he sets her against the free woman, whom the chapter never mentions by name.
Q 30Galatians 4:28 calls believers children of promise like which Genesis figure, born to a free woman?
Isaac
Isaac was born through the promise rather than in the ordinary way, and Paul says the other son persecuted him, just as was happening in Galatia.