Galatians 2:5

2:5 But ¹  we did not surrender to them ²  even for a moment, ³  in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you. ⁴ 

Galatians 2:14

2:14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas ⁵  in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force ⁶  the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Galatians 5:7

5:7 You were running well; who prevented you from obeying ⁷  the truth?

¹ tn Grk “slaves, nor did we…” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, οὐδέ (oude) was translated as “But…even” and a new sentence started in the translation at the beginning of v. 5.

² tn Or “we did not cave in to their demands.”

³ tn Grk “even for an hour” (an idiom for a very short period of time).

⁴ sn In order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you. Paul evidently viewed the demands of the so-called “false brothers” as a departure from the truth contained in the gospel he preached. This was a very serious charge (see Gal 1:8).

⁵ sn Cephas. This individual is generally identified with the Apostle Peter (L&N 93.211).

⁶ tn Here ἀναγκάζεις (anankazei") has been translated as a conative present (see ExSyn 534).

⁷ tn Or “following.” BDAG 792 s.v. πείθω 3.b states, “obey, follow w. dat. of the pers. or thing…Gal 3:1 v.l.; 5:7.”