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II. Loyalty to the Gospel[a]

(A)I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you[b] by [the] grace [of Christ] for a different gospel (not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. (B)But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach [to you] a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed![c] As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed!

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Footnotes

  1. 1:6–10 In place of the usual thanksgiving (see note on Rom 1:8), Paul, with little to be thankful for in the Galatian situation, expresses amazement at the way his converts are deserting the gospel of Christ for a perverted message. He reasserts the one gospel he has preached (Gal 1:7–9) and begins to defend himself (Gal 1:10).
  2. 1:6 The one who called you: God or Christ, though in actuality Paul was the divine instrument to call the Galatians.
  3. 1:8 Accursed: in Greek, anathema; cf. Rom 9:3; 1 Cor 12:3; 16:22.

13 Take as your norm the sound words that you heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.(A)

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I. Address

Chapter 1

Greeting.[a] Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ for the sake of the faith of God’s chosen ones and the recognition of religious truth,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:1–4 On the epistolary form, see note on Rom 1:1–7. The apostolate is the divinely appointed mission to lead others to the true faith and through it to eternal salvation (Ti 1:1–3).