text: Rebuke and Reminder: Faith, Spirit, and Righteousness (3:1–6)
  Argument: Abraham's Children through Incorporation into Christ by Faith (3:7–4:7)
  Appeal (4:8–31)
  Exhortation and Warning: Faith, Spirit, and Righteousness (5:1–12)
  The Life of the Gospel (5:13–6:10)
  The Basic Pattern of the New Life: Serving One Another in Love (5:13–15)
  Implementing the New Life: Walking by the Spirit (5:16–24)
  Some Specific Parameters of the New Life (5:25–6:6)
  The Urgency of Living the New Life (6:7–10)
  Closing: Cross and New Creation (6:11–18)
  This outline is provided by Douglas J. Moo.
  Contents
  This epistle addresses the question of whether the Gentiles in Galatia were obligated to follow Mosaic Law to be part of the Christ community. After an introductory address, the apostle discusses the subjects which had occasioned the epistle.
  In the first two chapters, Paul discusses his life before Christ and his early ministry, including interactions with other apostles in Jerusalem. This is the most extended discussion of Paul's past that we find in the Pauline letters (cf. Philippians 3:1–7). Some have read this autobiographical narrative as Paul's defense of his apostolic authority. Others, however, see Paul's telling of the narrative as making an argument to the Galatians about the nature of the gospel and the Galatians' own situation.