Galatians 1:2
New International Version
and all the brothers and sisters with me, To the churches in Galatia:

New Living Translation
All the brothers and sisters here join me in sending this letter to the churches of Galatia.

English Standard Version
and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:

Berean Standard Bible
and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:

Berean Literal Bible
and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:

King James Bible
And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

New King James Version
and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:

New American Standard Bible
and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:

NASB 1995
and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:

NASB 1977
and all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

Legacy Standard Bible
and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:

Amplified Bible
and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:

Christian Standard Bible
and all the brothers who are with me: To the churches of Galatia.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and all the brothers who are with me: To the churches of Galatia.

American Standard Version
and all the brethren that are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And all the brethren who are with me, to the assembly that is in Galatia.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia.

English Revised Version
and all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
and all the believers who are with me. To the churches in Galatia.

Good News Translation
All the believers who are here join me in sending greetings to the churches of Galatia:

International Standard Version
and all the brothers who are with me. To: The churches in Galatia.

Literal Standard Version
and all the brothers with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

Majority Standard Bible
and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:

New American Bible
and all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

NET Bible
and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia.

New Revised Standard Version
and all the members of God’s family who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:

New Heart English Bible
and all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

Weymouth New Testament
and all the brethren who are with me: To the Churches of Galatia.

World English Bible
and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

Young's Literal Translation
and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

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Context
Paul's Greeting to the Galatians
1Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead— 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,…

Cross References
Acts 16:6
After the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the word in the province of Asia, they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.

1 Corinthians 16:1
Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia:

Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

Philippians 4:21
Greet all the saints in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send you greetings.


Treasury of Scripture

And all the brothers which are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

all.

Philippians 2:22
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Philippians 4:21
Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.

churches.

Acts 9:31
Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

Acts 15:41
And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.

Acts 16:5,6
And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily…

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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.














(2) All the brethren which are with me--i.e., all his travelling companions. We are unable to say exactly who these were, the more so as we do not know with any certainty the place from which St. Paul was writing. He may have had in his company most of those who are mentioned in Acts 20:4 as accompanying him back into Asia: Sopater, son of Pyrrhus (according to an amended reading); Aristarchus and Secundus, of Thessalonica; Gaius, of Derbe; Tychicus and Trophimus, of Asia; in any case, probably Timothy, and perhaps Titus.

It was usual with St. Paul to join with his own name that of one or other of his companions in the address of his Epistles. Thus, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians he associates with himself Sosthenes; in the Second Epistle to Corinth, and in those to the Philippians and Colossians, Timothy and Silvanus. In writing to the Galatians, St. Paul includes all his companions in his greeting, hardly with the view of fortifying himself with their authority, for he is ready enough to take the whole defence of his own cause upon himself, but, perhaps, not altogether without the idea that he is possessed of their sympathy.

The churches of Galatia.--See the Introduction to this Epistle.

This opening salutation is intentionally abrupt and bare. Usually it was the Apostle's custom to begin with words of commendation. He praises all that he can find to praise even in a Church that had offended so seriously as the Corinthians. (See 1Corinthians 1:2; 1Corinthians 1:4-7.) But the errors of the Galatians, he feels, go more to the root of things. The Corinthians had failed in the practical application of Christian principles; the Galatians (so far as they listened to their Judaising teachers) could hardly be said to have Christian principles at all. The Apostle is angry with them with a righteous indignation, and his anger is seen in the naked severity of this address.

Verse 2. - and all the brethren which are with me (καὶ οἱ αὺν ἐμοὶ πάντες ἀδελφοί); and the brethren which are with me, one and all. The ordinary unaccentuated collocation of πάντες would be, πάντες οἱ σὺν ἐμοὶ ἀδελφοί. Its position here, where, perhaps, it was thrust in by a kind of after-thought, marks it as emphatic; there is not one of those about him who does not feel the like grief and indignation as himself in reference to the news just now received. We have a similar collocation in Romans 16:15. Πάντες would be marked as emphatic also if placed last, as in 1 Corinthians 7:17; 1 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Corinthians 15:7; Titus 3:15. Our attention is arrested by the absence of any name. A number of persons are named by St. Luke in the Acts (Acts 18:18-20:5), and by the apostle himself in his Epistles to the Corinthians and to the Romans, as about his person at different times during the latter part of his third journey; and it does not seem very likely that not one was now with him of those who had accompanied him, either in the first or in the second of his two visits in Galatia. The most probable way of explaining the entire suppression of names is by reference to the present mood of the writer; he is too indignant at the behaviour of the Galatian Churchmen to weave into his greeting any such thread of mutual personal interest. It is enough to intimate that all about him felt as he did. Unto the Churches of Galatia (ταῖς ἐκκλησίας τῆς Γαλατίας). The dry coldness of tone with which this is written will be best understood by the reader upon his comparing the apostle's manner in his other letters, in all of which he is found adding some words marking the high dignity which attached to the communities he is addressing. He is too much displeased to do this now. The plurality of the Galatian Churches, each of them apparently forming a distinct organization, is expressed again in 1 Corinthians 16:1, "As I gave order to the Churches of Galatia;" and agrees very well with what we read in Acts 18:23, "Went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order (καθεξῆς), stablishing all the disciples." The leaven of Judaizing, whether imported by visitants from other regions or originating within these Churches themselves, appears to have been working very extensively among these communities, and not in one or two of them only. If the latter had been the case, the apostle would not have involved the collective Churches in the like censure, but, as in the case of Colossae, compared with the "Ephesians," have singled out for warning those actually peccant. This fact, of the general diffusion among them of one particular taint, warrants the belief that certain persons had been at the pains of going about among these Churches to propagate it. Who these persons were, or where they came from, there is nothing to show. It has, indeed, been assumed by many that, like those disturbers of the Antiochian Church mentioned in Acts 15:1 and Galatians 2:12, they had come from Judaea, or rather Jerusalem. But the Epistle gives no hint of this in respect to the Galatian Churches. What the apostle writes in Galatians 6:12, 13 points rather to the surmise that this particular distraction was caused by some Churchmen of their own, who had given themselves to this heretical proselytizing in order to truckle to non-Christian Jews living in their neighbourhood. Compare the apostle's foreboding respecting the future of the Ephesian Church, in Acts 20:30. (See note on Galatians 6:12, 13.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


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

all
πάντες (pantes)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

brothers
ἀδελφοί (adelphoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

with
σὺν (syn)
Preposition
Strong's 4862: With. A primary preposition denoting union; with or together.

me,
ἐμοὶ (emoi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

To the
Ταῖς (Tais)
Article - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

churches
ἐκκλησίαις (ekklēsiais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1577: From a compound of ek and a derivative of kaleo; a calling out, i.e. a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation.

of Galatia:
Γαλατίας (Galatias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1053: Of foreign origin; Galatia, a region of Asia.


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