Q 01/05

Galatians 5:22 lists love, joy, peace and six more qualities as the what of the Spirit?

A) Gifts

B) Fruit

C) Seal

D) Sword

Answer · why

B) 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 02/05

Which proverb about consequences comes from Galatians 6:7, where Paul warns that God is not mocked?

A) Pride goes before a fall

B) A leopard cannot change spots

C) You reap what you sow

D) Eat, drink and be merry

Answer · why

C) 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 eterna...

Q 03/05

Paul's Galatians took their name from which European people who migrated east in the 270s BC?

A) Goths

B) Etruscans

C) Illyrians

D) Celts

Answer · why

D) Celts

Celts gave the region its name, and their descendants still kept Gaulish features of culture and language in Paul's day.

Q 04/05

After calling the Galatians foolish in Galatians 3:1, Paul asks who has done what to them?

A) Bribed

B) Blinded

C) Bewitched

D) Blackmailed

Answer · why

C) 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 05/05

Galatians 4:15 says the Galatians would once have torn out what and given them to Paul?

A) Their teeth

B) Their eyes

C) Their hair

D) Their hearts

Answer · why

B) 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.