Galatians 3:1

Galatians 3:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
• New International Version (NIV)You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
• English Standard Version (ESV)O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
• New King James Version (NKJV)O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?

Context of Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians, who cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Yeshua the Messiah was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2I want to find out just one thing from you: did you receive the Ruach by deeds based on Torah, or by hearing based on trust? 3Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Ruach, will you now reach the goal in the flesh?

Galatians 3:1 word by word

Ὦ ἀνόητοι Γαλάται, τίς ὑμᾶς ἐβάσκανεν οἷς κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὺς Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς προεγράφη ἐσταυρωμένος;Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Oὦō · oh!G5599
• foolishἀνόητοςanoētos · foolishG453
• GalatiansΓαλάτηςGalatēs · GalatianG1052
• whoτίςtis · which?G5101
• hath bewitchedβασκαίνωbaskainō · to bewitchG940
• youσύsu · youG4771
• that ye shouldπείθωpeithō · to persuadeG3982
• notμήmē · notG3361
• the truthὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the truthἀλήθειαalētheia · truthG225
• beforeκατάkata · according toG2596
• whoseὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• eyesὀφθαλμόςophthalmos · eyeG3788
• JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
• ChristΧριστόςChristos · ChristG5547
• hath been evidently set forthπρογράφωprographō · to write/designateG4270
• crucifiedσταυρόωstauroō · to crucifyG4717
• amongἐνen · in/on/amongG1722

Cross-references for Galatians 3:1

• Galatians 3:3Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Ruach, will you now reach the goal in the flesh?
• Deuteronomy 32:6Is this how you pay back Adonai, O foolish, unwise people? Isn’t He your Father who ransomed you? He made you and established you.
• 1 Samuel 13:13Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly by not keeping the commandment of Adonai your God which He commanded you. For now, Adonai would have established your kingship over Israel forever.
• Matthew 7:26Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
• Luke 24:25Yeshua said to them, “Oh foolish ones, so slow of heart to put your trust in all that the prophets spoke!
• Ephesians 5:15So pay close attention to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise.
• 1 Timothy 6:4he is prideful, understanding nothing. Instead he is obsessed with arguments and disputes about words—out of which come envy, strife, slander, evil suspicions,
• Galatians 1:6I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the One who called you by the grace of Messiah, to a different “good news”—
• Galatians 4:9But now you have come to know God—or rather you have come to be known by God. So how can you turn back again to those weak and worthless principles? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
• Galatians 5:7You were running a great race! Who blocked you from following the truth?
• Matthew 24:24For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and show great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.
• Acts 8:9Now a man named Simon had been practicing magic in the city and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying he was someone great.
• 2 Corinthians 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds might be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion and purity to the Messiah.
• Ephesians 4:14As a result, we are no longer to be like children, tossed around by the waves and blown all over by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men with cunning in deceitful scheming.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:9The coming of the lawless one is connected to the activity of satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
• 2 Peter 2:18For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

Commentaries on Galatians 3:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1O foolish Galatians - O infatuated people; you make as little use of reason as those who have none; you have acted in this business as those do who are fascinated - they are led blindly and unresistingly on to their own destruction. That ye should not obey the truth - This clause is wanting in ABD*FG, some others, the Syriac, Erpenian, Coptic, Sahidic, Itala, Vulgate MS., and in the most important of the Greek and Latin fathers. Of the clause Professor…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1O foolish Galatians - That is, foolish for having yielded to the influence of the false teachers, and for having embraced doctrines that tended to subvert the gospel of the Redeemer. The original word used here ( ̓́ anoētoi) denotes void of understanding; and they had shown it in a remarkable manner in rejecting the doctrine of the apostles, and in embracing the errors into which they had fallen. It will be remembered that this is an expression similar…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The Galatians reproved for departing from the great doctrine of justification alone, through faith in Christ. (1-5) This doctrine established from the example of Abraham. (6-9) From the tenor of the law and the severity of its curse. (10-14) From the covenant of promises, which the law could not disannul. (15-18) The law was a school master to lead them to Christ. (19-25) Under the gospel state true believers are all one in Christ. (26-29) Verses 1-5…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1O foolish Galatians! Their foolishness was both intellectual and spiritual (compare Luke 24:25; see 1 Samuel 25:1–38). They stopped trusting in Christ and trusted in the law (Galatians 1:6). The Galatians were misled by the teachers’ persuasive arguments (compare Genesis 3:1–7). It was not actual witchcraft, but convincing words. Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified: When Paul told people about Jesus, he clearly explained…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-291. that ye should not obey the truth--omitted in the oldest manuscripts. bewitched--fascinated you so that you have lost your wits. Themistius says the Galatians were naturally very acute in intellect. Hence, Paul wonders they could be so misled in this case. you--emphatical. "You, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been graphically set forth (literally, in writing, namely, by vivid portraiture in preaching) among you, crucified" (so the sense and Greek…Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Christ
• Galatians
• Jesus
• Christ, Messiah
• Galatia, Galatians
• Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus
• Jesus Christ
• Conclude
• Curse
• Eye

Commentaries on Galatians 3

• 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