Galatians 1:3
New International Version
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

New Living Translation
May God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

English Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

Berean Standard Bible
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

Berean Literal Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

King James Bible
Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

New King James Version
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

New American Standard Bible
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

NASB 1995
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

NASB 1977
Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ,

Legacy Standard Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

Amplified Bible
Grace to you and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

Christian Standard Bible
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

American Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Grace be with you and peace from God The Father and from our Lord Yeshua The Messiah,

Contemporary English Version
I pray that God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind to you and will bless you with peace!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

English Revised Version
Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Good will and peace are yours from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!

Good News Translation
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

International Standard Version
May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

Literal Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

Majority Standard Bible
Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

New American Bible
grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

NET Bible
Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

New Revised Standard Version
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

New Heart English Bible
Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ,

Webster's Bible Translation
Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

Weymouth New Testament
May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

World English Bible
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

Young's Literal Translation
Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Paul's Greeting to the Galatians
2and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia: 3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,…

Cross References
Romans 1:7
To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Galatians 1:4
who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,


Treasury of Scripture

Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 1:7
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:3
Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:2
Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Galatians 1
1. Paul's greeting to the Galatians;
6. He wonders why they have so soon left him and the gospel;
8. and accurses those who preach any other gospel than he did.
11. He learned the gospel not from men, but from God;
14. and shows what he was before his calling;
17. and what he did immediately after it.














(3) Grace . . . and peace.--See Note on Romans 1:7.

God the Father.--We may see by this verse how the title "Father," originally used in the present formula to distinguish between the Divine Persons, came gradually to contract a wider signification. God is, through Christ, the Father of all who by their relation to Christ are admitted into the position of "sons" (Romans 8:14-17; Galatians 4:5-7). Hence, where no special limitation is imposed by the context, this secondary sense may be taken as included.

And from our Lord Jesus Christ.--Strictly, it would be more in accordance with the theology of St. Paul to say that grace and peace were given from the Father, by, or through, the Son. Here the one preposition from is used to cover both cases, just as by had been used in Galatians 1:1. It is equally correct to use the word "from" with reference to a mediate and to the ultimate stage in the act of procession. Water may be drawn not only from the fountain-head, but also from the running stream.

Verse 3. - Grace be to you and peace (χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη); grace to you and peace. Here, as often, we have combined the form of salutation prevalent among Greeks, χαίρειν (found in its unaltered form in James 1:1, "wishing joy"), Christianized into χάρις, grace, which denotes the outpouring of Divine benignity in all such spiritual blessings as sinful creatures need; and the Hebrew greeting, shalom, which in its transformation into εἰρήνη may be supposed to have dropped in its Christianized signification some of its originally comprehensive meaning, which comprised all "health and wealth" as well as "peace," and to have generally expressed the more limited idea of that calm sense of reconciliation and that perfect security against evil which constitute the peculiar happiness of a soul which believes in Christ. It is nevertheless conceivable that εἰρήνη, as used in Hellenistic Greek, may at times have widened the sense proper to it in ordinary Greek into the more comprehensive import of the shalom, which it was regularly employed to represent. From God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ (ἀπὸ Θεοῦ πατρός καὶ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Ξριστοῦ). These words regularly form a part in the apostle's formula of greeting. With slight variations they are found in all his Epistles, except, perhaps, the First to the Thessalonians, where, though read in the Textus Receptus, they are omitted by recent editors. "Our" is added to "Father" in at least seven of St. Paul's Epistles (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon). This warrants the belief that, when as in 1 Timothy, Titus, and here, he wrote "God the Father," he most probably did so with reference to God's fatherly relation to the members of Christ's Church. Tregelles and the margin of the revised Greek text, in fact, read ἡμῶν after πατρὸς here, omitting it after Κυρίου. Uniformly in this formula of greeting we find only one preposition, "from" (ἀπό), before the two names, "God" and "Jesus Christ;" as in the first verse in this Epistle there is only one preposition, "through," before "Jesus Christ" and "God." The apostle, looking upwards, discerns, as St. Stephen did, in the ineffable glory, the supreme God in whom he recognizes "our Father," and with him Jesus Christ, "our Lord;" that is, our Master, Head, Mediator, "through whom are all things, and we through him." Grace and peace coming down from heaven, must come from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. From the very nature of the case it is obvious that the blessings referred to come to us through Christ, though also "from" him; as also that St. Paul's delegation as apostle, spoken of in the first verse, originated from a volition and appointment of God the Father, as well as was brought about "through" the ordering of his providence. But in each case the preposition used by the apostle preserves its proper force, not to be confused by our thrusting into it another notion not just then in the writer's view.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Grace
Χάρις (Charis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5485: From chairo; graciousness, of manner or act.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

peace
εἰρήνη (eirēnē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1515: Probably from a primary verb eiro; peace; by implication, prosperity.

to you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

from
ἀπὸ (apo)
Preposition
Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

God
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

our
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

Father
Πατρὸς (Patros)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the Lord
Κυρίου (Kyriou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

Christ,
Χριστοῦ (Christou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.


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