Verse (Click for Chapter) 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. Jump to Previous Christ Grace Granted Jesus PeaceJump to Next Christ Grace Granted Jesus PeaceGalatians 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 GraceΧάρις (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. Links Galatians 1:3 NIVGalatians 1:3 NLT Galatians 1:3 ESV Galatians 1:3 NASB Galatians 1:3 KJV Galatians 1:3 BibleApps.com Galatians 1:3 Biblia Paralela Galatians 1:3 Chinese Bible Galatians 1:3 French Bible Galatians 1:3 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Galatians 1:3 Grace to you and peace from God (Gal. Ga) |