Limitless Word
I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
Galatians 5:10 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
  • KJV I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
  • NKJV I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.
  • NASB I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will adopt no other view; but the one who is disturbing you will bear the punishment, whoever he is.
  • NLT I am trusting the Lord to keep you from believing false teachings. God will judge that person, whoever he is, who has been confusing you.

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org

Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Quick answer

Paul is confident in the Lord that they will not adopt a different view, while the troublemaker will bear his judgment. He trusts God to keep them and to deal with the agitator.

Overview

Despite his warnings, Paul expresses hope, grounded 'in the Lord,' that the Galatians will return to the truth. At the same time he assures them that whoever is unsettling them will face God's judgment. The verse balances pastoral confidence in God's preserving grace with a sober reminder of accountability for those who corrupt the gospel.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 27

  • Gal 5:12As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
  • Phil 3:15All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.
  • 2 Cor 2:3I wrote as I did so that on my arrival I would not be saddened by those who ought to make me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would share my joy.
  • Gal 1:7which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Jn 2:18–26Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
  • Gal 6:17From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
  • Gal 2:4This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
  • Acts 15:24It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.
  • 2 Cor 10:2I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.
  • Gal 2:6But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.
  • 1 Tim 1:20Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.
  • 2 Cor 7:16I rejoice that I can have complete confidence in you.
  • Gal 3:1O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
  • Gal 6:12–13Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 5:5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
  • Gal 4:17Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
  • 2 Cor 10:6And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.
  • 2 Cor 2:6The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.
  • 2 Cor 1:15Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.
  • Acts 15:1–2Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
  • 2 Cor 13:10This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I am present I will not need to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.
  • Gal 4:11I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
  • 2 Cor 5:16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
  • Gal 4:20how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
  • Phlm 1:21Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
  • 2 Cor 8:22And we are sending along with them our brother whose earnestness has been proven many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.
  • 2 Th 3:4And we have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.

Themes, concepts, people & topics

Topics (4)

Resources, by level

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Galatians videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Galatians 5:10YouTube · Lay · Free

    Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.

  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

    Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on GalatiansMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

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 5:10 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.

Original language

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Greek word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.