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
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:
- BSB 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—
- 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,
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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.
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Cross-references · 22
- 2 Cor 11:4For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
- Gal 5:7–8You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
- Isa 29:13The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
- Ps 106:13They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
- Gal 3:1–5Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
- 1 Tim 1:3As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
- Gal 4:9–15But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
- Jer 2:12–13“Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
- Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
- 1 Cor 4:15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
- Gal 5:4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
- Acts 15:11But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
- 1 Tim 1:14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
- 2 Tim 2:1You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
- John 9:30The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
- 1 Pet 1:15but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
- 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
- Rom 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Mark 6:6He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.
- Rev 22:21The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.
- 2 Th 2:14to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Pet 1:3seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
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