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I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
Galatians 1:6 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
  • KJV I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
  • NKJV I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,
  • NASB I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel,
  • NLT I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News

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Quick answer

Paul is astonished that the Galatians are so quickly abandoning God and the gospel of grace for a different 'good news.' Their desertion is, at root, a turning from God himself.

Overview

Where Paul usually offers thanksgiving, here he expresses alarm, signaling the gravity of the crisis. To exchange the gospel of grace for a law-based message is not a minor adjustment but a defection from 'him who called you.' The speed of their turning highlights how seductive and dangerous a counterfeit gospel can be.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • 2 Cor 11:4For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily.
  • Gal 5:7–8You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?
  • Isa 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
  • Ps 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
  • Gal 3:1–5O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
  • 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines
  • Gal 4:9–15But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
  • Jer 2:12–13Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.
  • Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
  • 1 Cor 4:15Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
  • Gal 5:4You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
  • Acts 15:11On the contrary, we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
  • 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
  • 2 Tim 2:1You therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
  • John 9:30“That is remarkable indeed!” the man said. “You do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.
  • 1 Pet 1:15But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
  • 2 Tim 1:9He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
  • Rom 5:2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
  • Mark 6:6And He was amazed at their unbelief. And He went around from village to village, teaching the people.
  • Rev 22:21The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.
  • 2 Th 2:14To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Pet 1:3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

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Christ at the center

Christ became a curse for us to redeem us from the law's curse, that we might receive the Spirit and be sons — justified by faith in him, not by works.

How Galatians 1:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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