to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
Parallel translations
- KJV To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
- BSB We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
- NKJV to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
- NASB But we did not yield in subjection to them, even for an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
- NLT But we refused to give in to them for a single moment. We wanted to preserve the truth of the gospel message for you.
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Quick answer
Paul refused to yield to them even briefly, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with the Galatians. He would not compromise on the heart of the message.
Overview
Paul's firm resistance was driven by pastoral love, protecting the gospel for the very churches he now writes. To have given way, even for an hour, would have surrendered 'the truth of the Good News.' His stand shows that some matters of doctrine are non-negotiable for the church's good.
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- Gal 4:16So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
- Gal 2:14But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
- Eph 1:13in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation — in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
- Col 1:5because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,
- Gal 3:1–2Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
- Jude 1:3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
- Col 2:4–8Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
- Acts 15:2Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
- 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
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