1599 Geneva Bible: “Kill Your Self-Centered Motives"

Colossians 3:5 (i)Mortify therefore your (ii)members which are on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, the inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:6 For the which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

i. Do not let not your dead nature motivate you any more, but let your living nature be motivate you. Now the force of nature is shown by one's motives and actions. Therefore let the affections of the flesh die in you, and let the opposite affections which are spiritual, live. And the author then lists a great long scroll of vices, and their opposite virtues.
ii. The motivations and desires that are in us, are in this place very properly called members, since the reason and the will of man is corrupted, he does use them as the body does its members.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “Renounce your own Righteousness"

Romans 10:2-3 For I bear them record that they have the zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. (i)For (ii)they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and going about to (iii)establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to
the righteousness of God.

i. The first entrance unto salvation, is to renounce our own righteousness: the next is, to embrace that righteousness by faith, which God has freely offered to us in the Gospel.
ii. The ignorance of the Law which we should know, excuses none before God, especially it doesn't excuse them that are of His household.
iii. Ignorance has always pride joined with it.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “Spirtual Worship"

Galatians 5:5 (i) For we through the (ii) Spirit wait for the hope
of righteousness through faith.

i. He compares the new people with the old: for it is certain
that they (old Testament Faithful Israel) also did ground all their hope of justification and life in faith and not in circumcision, but their faith was wrapped in the external and ceremonial worship: but our (New Testament Christians) faith is bare and content with spiritual worship.
ii. Through the Spirit, which begets faith.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “Watch Yourself"

Galatians 6:5 (i) For every man shall bear his own burden.

i. A reason given for why men should have the greatest watch upon themselves, because every man shall be judged before God according to his own life, and not by comparing himself with other men.


[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]

1599 Geneva Bible: “Why was the Law given?"

Galatians 3:19 (i)Wherefore then serveth the Law? It was added because of the (ii)transgressions, (iii)till the seed came,unto the which the promise was made: (iv)and it was (v)ordained by (vi)Angels in the hand of a Mediator.

i. An objection which some might say from what was previously said (In the previous verses, Galatians 3:6-18 Paul said that the inheritance we get is a fulfillment of the promise God gave to Abraham): If the inheritance we get isn't earned by obeying the Law (and not even in part) then why was the Law given (to Moses), after the promise was given (to Abraham)?The Apostle answers: it is given to rebuke and convict men of sin, and so teaches them to look unto a Savior, Christ, in whom the promise of saving all people together should be fulfilled. So the the Law was never given to justify men.
ii. That men might understand, by the revealing of men's sins, that men are only saved by only the grace of God, which God revealed to Abraham, and that through Christ.
iii. Until the separation between God and man is broken down, and that full seed sprang up, which is made of two people (Gentiles and Jews): for by this word Seed, it means not only Christ by himself, but coupled and joined together with his people who are found in Him by faith.
iv. A confirmation of the previously stated answer using the example of the giving of the Law: for the Law was given by Angels, and when it was done it struck great terror into all, and Moses was a Mediator coming between God's people and God. Now they that are one (God and His people), they need no Mediator, except those who are separated from God, and that are at odds with one another. Therefore the Law itself and the Mediator, were witnesses of the wrath of God, and not that God would by the means of the Law to reconcile men to himself, and abolish the promise, or add the Law unto the promise.
v. Commanded and given, or proclaimed.
vi. By the service and ministry.



[The above quoted scripture and accompanying Troy-paraphrased notes are taken from the 1599 Geneva Bible. A version of this great Bible, with modern spelling, may be purchased from the following link]