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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.
Galatians 5:10 · King James Version
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.
  • BSB 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.
  • 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.

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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 5:12I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
  • Phil 3:15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
  • 2 Cor 2:3And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
  • Gal 1:7Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Jn 2:18–26Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
  • Gal 6:17From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
  • Gal 2:4And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
  • Acts 15:24Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
  • 2 Cor 10:2But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
  • Gal 2:6But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
  • 1 Tim 1:20Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
  • 2 Cor 7:16I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
  • Gal 3:1O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
  • Gal 6:12–13As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 5:5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • Gal 4:17They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
  • 2 Cor 10:6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
  • 2 Cor 2:6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
  • 2 Cor 1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
  • Acts 15:1–2And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
  • 2 Cor 13:10Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
  • Gal 4:11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
  • 2 Cor 5:16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
  • Gal 4:20I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
  • Phlm 1:21Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
  • 2 Cor 8:22And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
  • 2 Th 3:4And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

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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.

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