Discovery BoxGalatians 1:1 
Context1:1 From Paul, 1 an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)
Galatians 1:4
Context1:4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,
Galatians 1:13
Context1:13 For you have heard of my former way of life 2 in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.
Galatians 2:6
Context2:6 But from those who were influential 3 (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people 4 ) – those influential leaders 5 added 6 nothing to my message. 7
Galatians 2:18
Context2:18 But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, 8 I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law. 9
Galatians 2:21
Context2:21 I do not set aside 10 God’s grace, because if righteousness 11 could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing! 12
Galatians 3:5
Context3:5 Does God then give 13 you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law 14 or by your believing what you heard? 15
Galatians 3:11
Context3:11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. 16
Galatians 3:18
Context3:18 For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave 17 it to Abraham through the promise.
Galatians 4:7
Context4:7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are 18 a son, then you are also an heir through God. 19
Galatians 6:16
Context6:16 And all who will behave 20 in accordance with this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God. 21
1 tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.
2 tn Or “lifestyle,” “behavior.”
3 tn Or “influential leaders.” BDAG 255 s.v. δοκέω 2.a.β has “the influential men Gal 2:2, 6b. A fuller expr. w. the same mng., w. inf. added…vss. 6a, 9.” This refers to the leadership of the Jerusalem church.
4 tn Grk “God does not receive the face of man,” an idiom for showing favoritism or partiality (BDAG 887-88 s.v. πρόσωπον 1.b.α; L&N 88.238).
5 tn Or “influential people”; here “leaders” was used rather than “people” for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy with the word “people” in the previous parenthetical remark. See also the note on the word “influential” at the beginning of this verse.
6 tn Or “contributed.” This is the same word translated “go to ask advice from” in 1:16, but it has a different meaning here; see L&N 59.72.
7 tn Or “added nothing to my authority.” Grk “added nothing to me,” with what was added (“message,” etc.) implied.
8 tn Or “once tore down.”
9 tn Traditionally, “that I am a transgressor.”
10 tn Or “I do not declare invalid,” “I do not nullify.”
11 tn Or “justification.”
12 tn Or “without cause,” “for no purpose.”
13 tn Or “provide.”
14 tn Grk “by [the] works of [the] law” (the same phrase as in v. 2).
15 tn Grk “by [the] hearing of faith” (the same phrase as in v. 2).
16 tn Or “The one who is righteous by faith will live” (a quotation from Hab 2:4).
17 tn On the translation “graciously gave” for χαρίζομαι (carizomai) see L&N 57.102.
18 tn Grk “and if a son, then also an heir.” The words “you are” have been supplied twice to clarify the statement.
19 tc The unusual expression διὰ θεοῦ (dia qeou, “through God”) certainly prompted scribes to alter it to more customary or theologically acceptable ones such as διὰ θεόν (dia qeon, “because of God”; F G 1881 pc), διὰ Χριστοῦ (dia Cristou, “through Christ”; 81 630 pc sa), διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ (dia Ihsou Cristou, “through Jesus Christ”; 1739c), θεοῦ διὰ Χριστοῦ (“[an heir] of God through Christ”; א2 C3 D [P] 0278 [6 326 1505] Ï ar sy), or κληρονόμος μὲν θεοῦ, συγκληρονόμος δὲ Χριστοῦ (klhronomo" men qeou, sugklhronomo" de Cristou, “an heir of God, and fellow-heir with Christ”; Ψ pc [cf. Rom 8:17]). Although it is unusual for Paul to speak of God as an intermediate agent, it is not unprecedented (cf. Gal 1:1; 1 Cor 1:9). Nevertheless, Gal 4:7 is the most direct statement to this effect. Further testimony on behalf of διὰ θεοῦ is to be found in external evidence: The witnesses with this phrase are among the most important in the NT (Ì46 א* A B C* 33 1739*vid lat bo Cl).
20 tn The same Greek verb, στοιχέω (stoicew), occurs in Gal 5:25.
21 tn The word “and” (καί) can be interpreted in two ways: (1) It could be rendered as “also” which would indicate that two distinct groups are in view, namely “all who will behave in accordance with this rule” and “the Israel of God.” Or (2) it could be rendered “even,” which would indicate that “all who behave in accordance with this rule” are “the Israel of God.” In other words, in this latter view, “even” = “that is.”
