Galatians 1:8

Galatians 1:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
• New International Version (NIV)But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!
• English Standard Version (ESV)But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

Context of Galatians 1:8

6I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel, 7which is not another [one]; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ. But if even we or an angel out of heaven announce as glad tidings to you [anything] besides what we have announced as glad tidings to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one announce to you as glad tidings [anything] besides what ye have received, let him be accursed. 10For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.

Galatians 1:8 word by word

ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐὰν ἡμεῖς ἢ ἄγγελος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ εὐαγγελίζηται ὑμῖν παρ᾽ ὃ εὐηγγελισάμεθα ὑμῖν, ἀνάθεμα ἔστω.Read the interlinear

• evenκαίkai · andG2532
• angelἄγγελοςaggelos · angelG32
• heavenοὐρανόςouranos · heavenG3772
• beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510

Cross-references for Galatians 1:8

• Galatians 1:9As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one announce to you as glad tidings [anything] besides what ye have received, let him be accursed.
• 1 Corinthians 16:22If any one love not the Lord [Jesus Christ] let him be Anathema Maranatha.
• 2 Corinthians 11:13For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
• 1 Timothy 1:19maintaining faith and a good conscience; which [last] some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;
• Revelation 22:18I testify to every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any one shall add to these things, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book.
• Galatians 3:10For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which [are] written in the book of the law to do them;
• Genesis 9:25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren.
• Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, a work of the craftsman's hand, and putteth it up secretly! And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
• Joshua 9:23And now ye are cursed, and ye shall never cease to be bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house of my God.
• 1 Samuel 26:19And now, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah have moved thee against me, let him accept an oblation; but if the sons of men, cursed be they before Jehovah; for they have driven me out this day from adhering to the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.
• Nehemiah 13:25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair, and adjured them by God [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
• Matthew 25:41Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
• 2 Peter 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;
• Mark 14:71But he began to curse and to swear, I know not this man of whom ye speak.
• Acts 23:14and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.
• Romans 9:3for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

Commentaries on Galatians 1:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8But though we, or an angel - That Gospel which I have already preached to you is the only true Gospel; were I to preach any other, I should incur the curse of God. If your false teachers pretend, as many in early times did, that they received their accounts by the ministry of an angel, let them be accursed; separate them from your company, and have no religious communion with them. Leave them to that God who will show his displeasure against all who…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8But though we - That is, we the apostles. Probably, he refers particularly to himself, as the plural is often used by Paul when speaking of himself. He alludes here, possibly, to a charge which was brought against him by the false teachers in Galatia, that he had changed his views since he came among them, and now preached differently from what he did then; see the introduction. They endeavored probably to fortify their own opinions in regard to the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-9Verses 6-9 Those who would establish any other way to heaven than what the gospel of Christ reveals, will find themselves wretchedly mistaken. The apostle presses upon the Galatians a due sense of their guilt in forsaking the gospel way of justification; yet he reproves with tenderness, and represents them as drawn into it by the arts of some that troubled them. In reproving others, we should be faithful, and yet endeavour to restore them in the spirit of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-9let him be under a curse! (literally Let that person be anathema): The Greek word anathema often translates the Hebrew kherem, which in the Old Testament means something dedicated to God for complete destruction (see Leviticus 27:28–29; compare Romans 9:3; 1 Corinthians 12:3; 16:22). Paul called for God's strongest wrath on those who distort the good news about Jesus (Galatians 1:7). even if we or an angel from heaven: No one is allowed to change the good…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. But--however weighty they may seem "who trouble you." Translate as Greek, "Even though we," namely, I and the brethren with me, weighty and many as we are (Ga 1:1, 2). The Greek implies a case supposed which never has occurred. angel--in which light ye at first received me (compare Ga 4:14; 1Co 13:1), and whose authority is the highest possible next to that of God and Christ. A new revelation, even though seemingly accredited by miracles, is not to be…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Galatians 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings