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Ga 5:8 King James This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
This persuasion--Greek, "The persuasion," namely, to which you are yielding. There is a play on words in the original, the Greek for persuasion being akin to "obey" (Gal 5:7). This persuasion which ye have obeyed.

cometh not of--that is "from." Does not emanate from Him, but from an enemy.

that calleth you-- (Gal 5:13; Gal 1:6; Phi 3:14; Th1 5:24). The calling is the rule of the whole race [BENGEL].
 
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14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;