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Text -- Galatians 1:7-24 (NET)

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1:7 not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ. 1:8 But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell! 1:9 As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell! 1:10 Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!
Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship
1:11 Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. 1:12 For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ. 1:13 For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it. 1:14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. 1:15 But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased 1:16 to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being, 1:17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus. 1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days. 1:19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother. 1:20 I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you! 1:21 Afterward I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 1:22 But I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. 1:23 They were only hearing, “The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith he once tried to destroy.” 1:24 So they glorified God because of me.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Arabia the entire region of the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai Peninsula, the land of Edom, and all the land between the Jordan Valley and the Euphrates River (ZD).,a region of desert plains
 · Cephas a nickname for Simon, son of John
 · Cilicia a region of SE Asia Minor
 · Damascus a city-state in Syria, located near Mt. Hermon at the edge of the Syrian desert (OS),a town near Mt. Hermon at the edge of the Syrian desert (OS)
 · Gentile a non-Jewish person
 · James a son of Zebedee; brother of John; an apostle,a son of Alpheus; an apostle,a brother of Jesus; writer of the epistle of James,the father (or brother) of the apostle Judas
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Judaism the Jewish religion/beliefs
 · Judea a region that roughly corresponded to the earlier kingdom of Judah
 · Peter a man who was a leader among the twelve apostles and wrote the two epistles of Peter
 · Syria the country to the north of Palestine,a country of north western Mesopotamia


Dictionary Themes and Topics: GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE | Paul | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 5 | Minister | Galatians, Epistle to | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 1-7 | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 8-12 | ANATHEMA | Zeal | James | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 4 | Ignorance | INSPIRATION, 8-18 | Word of God | JAMES, EPISTLE OF | Damascus | Cilicia | Peter | Arabia | Oath | more
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NET Notes: Gal 1:7 Or “trying.”

NET Notes: Gal 1:8 Grk “let him be accursed” (ἀνάθεμα, anaqema). The translation gives the outcome which is implied by th...

NET Notes: Gal 1:9 See the note on this phrase in the previous verse.

NET Notes: Gal 1:10 Undoubtedly the background for the concept of being the Lord’s slave or servant is to be found in the Old Testament scriptures. For a Jew this c...

NET Notes: Gal 1:11 Grk “is not according to man.”

NET Notes: Gal 1:12 It is difficult to determine what kind of genitive ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ (Ihsou Cristou) ...

NET Notes: Gal 1:13 Or “lifestyle,” “behavior.”

NET Notes: Gal 1:14 The traditions of my ancestors refers to both Pharisaic and popular teachings of this time which eventually were codified in Jewish literature such as...

NET Notes: Gal 1:15 Grk “from my mother’s womb.”

NET Notes: Gal 1:16 Grk “from flesh and blood.”

NET Notes: Gal 1:17 As a geographical region Arabia included the territory west of Mesopotamia, east and south of Syria and Palestine, extending to the isthmus of Suez. D...

NET Notes: Gal 1:18 Although often translated “to get acquainted with Cephas,” this could give the impression of merely a social call. L&N 34.52 has ̶...

NET Notes: Gal 1:19 Grk “But another of the apostles I did not see, except…” with “another” in emphatic position in the Greek text. Paul is ...

NET Notes: Gal 1:20 Grk “What things I am writing to you, behold, before God [that] I am not lying.”

NET Notes: Gal 1:22 Or “by sight”; Grk “by face.”

NET Notes: Gal 1:23 The Greek verb here is εὐαγγελίζεται (euangelizetai).

NET Notes: Gal 1:24 The prepositional phrase ἐν εμοί (en emoi) has been translated with a causal force.

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