Galatia 3:3

3:3 Are you so foolish? Although you began ¹  with ²  the Spirit, are you now trying to finish ³  by human effort? ⁴ 

Galatia 2:8

2:8 (for he who empowered ⁵  Peter for his apostleship ⁶  to the circumcised ⁷  also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles) ⁸ 

Galatia 3:17

3:17 What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, ⁹  so as to invalidate the promise.

Galatia 2:10

2:10 They requested ¹⁰  only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

Galatia 5:17

5:17 For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires ¹¹  that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to ¹²  each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

Galatia 1:13

1:13 For you have heard of my former way of life ¹³  in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

[3:3]  ¹ tn Grk “Having begun”; the participle ἐναρξάμενοι (enarxamenoi) has been translated concessively.

[3:3]  ² tn Or “by the Spirit.”

[3:3]  ³ tn The verb ἐπιτελεῖσθε (epiteleisqe) has been translated as a conative present (see ExSyn 534). This is something the Galatians were attempting to do, but could not accomplish successfully.

[3:3]  ⁴ tn Grk “in/by [the] flesh.”

[2:8]  ⁵ tn Or “worked through”; the same word is also used in relation to Paul later in this verse.

[2:8]  ⁶ tn Or “his ministry as an apostle.”

[2:8]  ⁷ tn Grk “to the circumcision,” i.e., the Jewish people.

[2:8]  ⁸ tn Grk “also empowered me to the Gentiles.”

[3:17]  ⁹ tc Most mss (D F G I 0176 0278 Ï it sy) read “ratified by God in Christ” whereas the omission of “in Christ” is the reading in Ì⁴⁶ א A B C P Ψ 6 33 81 1175 1739 1881 2464 pc co. The shorter reading is strongly supported by the ms evidence, and it is probable that a copyist inserted the words as an interpretive gloss. However, this form of the “in Christ” expression is somewhat atypical in the corpus Paulinum (εἰς Χριστόν [ei" Criston] rather than ἐν Χριστῷ [en Cristw]), a fact which tempers one’s certainty about the shorter reading. Nevertheless, the expression is used more in Galatians than in any other of Paul’s letters (Gal 2:16; 3:24, 27), and may have been suggested by such texts to early copyists.

[2:10]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “only that we remember the poor”; the words “They requested” have been supplied from the context to make a complete English sentence.

[5:17]  ¹¹ tn The words “has desires” do not occur in the Greek text a second time, but are repeated in the translation for clarity.

[5:17]  ¹² tn Or “are hostile toward” (L&N 39.1).

[1:13]  ¹³ tn Or “lifestyle,” “behavior.”