Galatians 1:10 — King James Version← Study notes
“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”
Galatians 1:10 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · Galatians 1:1020 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on Galatians 1:10
“For am I now persuading men: or God?” or am I seeking to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ. Granting, says he, that I might deceive you by these doctrines, could I deceive God, who knows my yet unuttered thoughts, and to please whom is my unceasing endeavor? See here the Apostolical spirit, the Evangelical loftiness! So too he writes to the Corinthians, “For we are not again commending ourselves unto you, but speak as giving you…
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Adam SmithNote3mo agoThe light of the world - Galatians 1
God is faithful in every circumstance. God meets us exactly where we are - broken, uncertain, yet chosen. Reading the Psalms alongside this gives a fuller picture of what the author was experiencing -...
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Omar HassanNote3mo agoPleasing God, Not Humans
Paul insists: 'Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.' A choice a...
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