Saints Translation

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Galatians — Greek text and reception

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Galatians 5 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Galatians [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 5

Stand in freedom

Verse 5:1

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For freedom Christ set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be held again under a yoke of slavery.

Textual & Reception Notes

Verse 5:2

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Look, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will benefit you nothing.

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Verse 5:3

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is obligated to do the whole law.

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Verse 5:4

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

You who seek to be justified by law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen from grace.

Textual & Reception Notes

Seek to be justified renders the contextual attempt implied by the present passive; it does not assert that the attempt succeeds.

Verse 5:5

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For we, by the Spirit, through faith, eagerly await the hope of righteousness.

Textual & Reception Notes

Hope of righteousness is retained rather than resolved into a paraphrase about the timing or precise nature of justification.

Verse 5:6

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but faith working through love.

Textual & Reception Notes

The participle can emphasize faith at work or faith made effective through love; working through love keeps the relation concise. Reception [CHR5], on 5:6: Chrysostom reads the clause as requiring a life of love as well as belief.

The danger of persuasion

Verse 5:7

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

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Verse 5:8

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

This persuasion is not from the One who calls you.

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Verse 5:9

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

A little leaven leavens the whole batch.

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Verse 5:10

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

I am confident about you in the Lord that you will think nothing else. But the one troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

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Verse 5:11

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

But I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

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Verse 5:12

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

I wish those who unsettle you would even castrate themselves!

Textual & Reception Notes

Apokoptō means cut off; the wish follows the circumcision dispute, and castrate themselves preserves its bodily force. The row renders Paul’s harsh rhetorical wish and does not turn it into an instruction to injure anyone.

Freedom expressed in love

Verse 5:13

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not make freedom a base of operations for the flesh, but through love serve one another as slaves.

Textual & Reception Notes

Aphormē is a base or opportunity for action. Douleuō continues the deliberate slavery metaphor in the command for mutual loving service.

Verse 5:14

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For the whole law is fulfilled in one saying: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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Verse 5:15

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

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Flesh and Spirit

Verse 5:16

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will certainly not fulfill the desire of the flesh.

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Verse 5:17

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these oppose one another, so that you do not do the things you want.

Textual & Reception Notes

The flesh/Spirit opposition and the purpose or result clause remain intact. Reception [CHR5], on 5:17: Chrysostom takes flesh here as a morally disordered will, not an assertion that the created body is evil.

Verse 5:18

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

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Verse 5:19

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

Textual & Reception Notes

Text [G]: The list begins with sexual immorality; no separate adultery item occurs in this main text.

Verse 5:20

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, divisions, factions,

Textual & Reception Notes

Pharmakeia is sorcery in this vice list, not a blanket term for medical treatment. Haireseis is rendered factions without supplying later named doctrinal groups.

Verse 5:21

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, just as I told you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text [G]: No separate murders item appears here; the accessed list is translated without importing an additional item.

Verse 5:22

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Textual & Reception Notes

Pistis is rendered faithfulness in the list of qualities; faith is also possible. The nine qualities in 5:22–23 follow the Greek list actually accessed.

Verse 5:23

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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Verse 5:24

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

And those who belong to Christ crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text [G]: Christ is the name present; Jesus has not been added. The flesh language retains the moral metaphor explained at 5:17.

Text [G]: NA28 reads Χριστοῦ [Ἰησοῦ] in brackets (SBLGNT Χριστοῦ); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "belong to Christ Jesus".[G]

Verse 5:25

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

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Verse 5:26

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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