Galatians 5:8

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
It certainly wasn't the one who chose you.

Revised Standard Version
This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Eve that counsell that is not of him that called you.

Hebrew Names Version
This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

New American Standard Bible
This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you.

New Century Version
This change did not come from the One who chose you.

Update Bible Version
This persuasion [is] not from him that calls you.

Webster's Bible Translation
This persuasion [cometh] not from him that calleth you.

English Standard Version
This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

World English Bible
This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
This persuasion cometh not from him that called you.

Weymouth's New Testament
No such teaching ever proceeded from Him who is calling you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Consente ye to no man; for this counsel ys not of hym that hath clepid you.

English Revised Version
This persuasion came not of him that calleth you.

Berean Standard Bible
Such persuasion does not come from the One who calls you.

Contemporary English Version
And that person was certainly not sent by the one who chose you.

Amplified Bible
This [deceptive] persuasion is not from Him who called you [to freedom in Christ].

American Standard Version
This persuasion came not of him that calleth you.

Bible in Basic English
This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.

Complete Jewish Bible
Whatever means of persuasion he used was not from the One who calls you.

Darby Translation
The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.

International Standard Version
Such influence does not come from the one who calls you.Galatians 1:6;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Your persuasion is not from him who called you.

Murdock Translation
The bias of your mind is not from him who called you.

King James Version (1611)
This perswasion commeth not of him that calleth you.

New Living Translation
It certainly isn't God, for he is the one who called you to freedom.

New Life Bible
Whatever he used did not come from the One Who chose you to have life.

New Revised Standard
Such persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
It is not the perswasion of him that calleth you.

George Lamsa Translation
Your persuasion comes from him who called you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The persuasion, is not of him that calleth you: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
This persuasion is not from him that calleth you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Not the perfection of hym that called you.

Good News Translation
It was not done by God, who calls you.

Christian Standard Bible®
This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

King James Version
This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

Lexham English Bible
This persuasion is not from the one who calls you!

Literal Translation
The persuasion is not from Him calling you.

Young's Literal Translation
the obedience [is] not of him who is calling you!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Soch councell is not of him that hath called you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
this opinionativeness does not come from him that called you.

New English Translation
This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!

New King James Version
This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

Simplified Cowboy Version
You can't say, "That's what God said," because God ain't gonna make you quit on his boy.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you.

Legacy Standard Bible
This persuasion is not from Him who calls you.

Contextual Overview

¹ Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you. ²I am emphatic about this. The moment any one of you submits to circumcision or any other rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ's hard-won gift of freedom is squandered. I repeat my warning: The person who accepts the ways of circumcision trades all the advantages of the free life in Christ for the obligations of the slave life of the law. ⁴I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love. ⁷You were running superbly! Who cut in on you, deflecting you from the true course of obedience? This detour doesn't come from the One who called you into the race in the first place. And please don't toss this off as insignificant. It only takes a minute amount of yeast, you know, to permeate an entire loaf of bread. Deep down, the Master has given me confidence that you will not defect. But the one who is upsetting you, whoever he is, will bear the divine judgment. ¹¹As for the rumor that I continue to preach the ways of circumcision (as I did in those pre-Damascus Road days), that is absurd. Why would I still be persecuted, then? If I were preaching that old message, no one would be offended if I mentioned the Cross now and then—it would be so watered-down it wouldn't matter one way or the other. Why don't these agitators, obsessive as they are about circumcision, go all the way and castrate themselves!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

him: Galatians 1:6

Reciprocal: Galatians 3:1 - who

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. That is, the opinion they were persuaded to believe; and which the Syriac version renders, פיסכון, "your persuasion"; this is not of God, who had called them into the grace of Christ; nor of Christ, who had called them to the knowledge of himself, and communion with him; nor of the Spirit of Christ, who had called them with an holy calling, and who still continued to call them to repentance; nor of any faithful minister of the Gospel, who had been concerned as an instrument in their effectual calling; meaning the notion they were persuaded to give into, that circumcision and the works of the law were necessary to salvation, and that these were to be joined with the righteousness of Christ for justification; such a conceit as this could never be of God, nor any evangelical minister, but must be of Satan or his emissaries, the false apostles.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This persuasion - This belief that it is necessary to obey the laws of Moses, and to intermingle the observance of Jewish rites with the belief of the Christian doctrines in order to be saved.

Not of him that calleth you - That is, of God, who had called them into his kingdom. That it refers to God and not to Paul is plain. They knew well enough that Paul had not persuaded them to it, and it was important now to show them that it could not be traced to God, though they who taught it pretended to be commissioned by him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. This persuasion — Of the necessity of your being circumcised and obeying the law of Moses, is not of him that calleth you. I never preached such a doctrine to you; I called you out of bondage to liberty, from a galling yoke to a cheerful service. Some translate πεισμονη, obedience or subjection. This subjection of yours to the Mosaic law is opposed to the will of God, and never was preached by me.