Galatians 3:24
Context3:24 Thus the law had become our guardian 1 until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous 2 by faith.
Galatians 5:21
Context5:21 envying, 3 murder, 4 drunkenness, carousing, 5 and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
1 tn Or “disciplinarian,” “custodian,” or “guide.” According to BDAG 748 s.v. παιδαγωγός, “the man, usu. a slave…whose duty it was to conduct a boy or youth…to and from school and to superintend his conduct gener.; he was not a ‘teacher’ (despite the present mng. of the derivative ‘pedagogue’…When the young man became of age, the π. was no longer needed.” L&N 36.5 gives “guardian, leader, guide” here.
2 tn Or “be justified.”
3 tn This term is plural in Greek (as is “murder” and “carousing”), but for clarity these abstract nouns have been translated as singular.
4 tc ‡ φόνοι (fonoi, “murders”) is absent in such important
5 tn Or “revelings,” “orgies” (L&N 88.287).