Discovery BoxGalatians 3:2 
Context3:2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law 1 or by believing what you heard? 2
Galatians 4:17
Context4:17 They court you eagerly, 3 but for no good purpose; 4 they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly. 5
Galatians 5:1
Context5:1 For freedom 6 Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke 7 of slavery.
1 tn Grk “by [the] works of [the] law,” a reference to observing the Mosaic law.
2 tn Grk “by [the] hearing of faith.”
3 tn Or “They are zealous for you.”
4 tn Or “but not commendably” (BDAG 505 s.v. καλῶς 2).
5 tn Or “so that you would be zealous.”
6 tn Translating the dative as “For freedom” shows the purpose for Christ setting us free; however, it is also possible to take the phrase in the sense of means or instrument (“with [or by] freedom”), referring to the freedom mentioned in 4:31 and implied throughout the letter.
7 sn Here the yoke figuratively represents the burdensome nature of slavery.
