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New King James Version

Galatians 1:7

which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Doctrines;   Gospel;   Heresy;   Minister, Christian;   Scofield Reference Index - Gospel;   The Topic Concordance - Evangelism;   Servants;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Doctrines, False;   Gospel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gospel;   Inspiration;   Paul;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Circumcision;   Evangelize, Evangelism;   Gospel;   Sanctification;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Galatians, Epistle to;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Apostle;   Barnabas;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Church;   Galatians, Letter to the;   Gospel;   Oration, Orator;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Eucharist;   Paul the Apostle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Galatians Epistle to the;   Mediation Mediator;   Miracles;   Peter;   Teaching ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 21 Another Different;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Galatians, Epistle to the;   Gospel;  

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Legacy Standard Bible
which is really not another, only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Let me be clear, there is only one good news message, but some people have convinced y'all otherwise. They're doing everything they can to change the message.
Bible in Basic English
Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.
Darby Translation
which is not another [one]; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.
Christian Standard Bible®
not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to change the good news about the Messiah.
World English Bible
and there isn't another gospel. Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
but there are some that trouble you, and would subvert the gospel of Christ.
Weymouth's New Testament
For other "Good News" there is none; but there are some persons who are troubling you, and are seeking to distort the Good News concerning Christ.
King James Version (1611)
Which is not another; but there bee some that trouble you, and would peruert the Gospel of Christ.
Literal Translation
which is not another; only there are some troubling you, even determined to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which is nothinge els, but that there be some, which trouble you, and intende to peruerte the Gospell of Christ.
Mace New Testament (1729)
owing to nothing but your being practised upon by some, who would overturn the gospel of Christ.
Amplified Bible
which is really not another [gospel]; but there are [obviously] some [people masquerading as teachers] who are disturbing and confusing you [with a misleading, counterfeit teaching] and want to distort the gospel of Christ [twisting it into something which it absolutely is not].
American Standard Version
which is not another gospel: only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Revised Standard Version
not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
which is nothinge els but that ther be some which trouble you and intende to pervert to gospell of Christ.
Update Bible Version
which is not another [gospel] only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Webster's Bible Translation
Which is not another; but there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Young's Literal Translation
that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;
New Century Version
Really, there is no other Good News. But some people are confusing you; they want to change the Good News of Christ.
New English Translation
not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.
Berean Standard Bible
which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
Contemporary English Version
when there is really only one true message. But some people are causing you trouble and want to make you turn away from the good news about Christ.
Complete Jewish Bible
which is not good news at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good News of the Messiah.
English Standard Version
not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Which is not another Gospel, saue that there be some which trouble you, and intend to peruert the Gospel of Christ.
George Lamsa Translation
A gospel which does not exist; howbeit, there are men who have stirred you up, and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Hebrew Names Version
and there isn't another Good News. Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Messiah.
International Standard Version
which is not really another one. To be sure, there are certain people who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel about Christ.Acts 15:1,24; 2 Corinthians 2:17; Galatians 5:10,12, 24;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
unto another gospel, which it is not; but there are men who disturb you, and (who) wish to remove you from the gospel of the Meshiha.
Murdock Translation
which doth not exist, except as there are some who would disquiet you, and are disposed to pervert the gospel of the Messiah.
New Living Translation
but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.
New Life Bible
No! There is not another kind of good news. There are some who would like to lead you in the wrong way. They want to change the Good News about Christ.
English Revised Version
which is not another gospel: only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
New Revised Standard
not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Which is not, another, only there are, some, that are troubling you, and wishing to change the glad-message of the Christ.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Which is not another: only there are some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
King James Version
Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Lexham English Bible
not that there is a different gospel, except there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which is not another [Gospel] but that there be some which trouble you, and intende to peruert the Gospel of Christ.
Easy-to-Read Version
There is no other message that is the Good News, but some people are confusing you. They want to change the Good News about Christ.
New American Standard Bible
which is not just another account; but there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Good News Translation
Actually, there is no "other gospel," but I say this because there are some people who are upsetting you and trying to change the gospel of Christ.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but that ther ben summe that troublen you, and wolen mysturne the euangelie of Crist.

Contextual Overview

6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

but: Galatians 2:4, Galatians 4:17, Galatians 5:10, Galatians 5:12, Galatians 6:12, Galatians 6:13, Galatians 6:17, Acts 15:1-5, Acts 15:24, Acts 20:30, Romans 16:17, Romans 16:18, 2 Corinthians 11:13

pervert: Galatians 5:10, Galatians 5:12, Jeremiah 23:26, Matthew 24:24, Acts 13:10, Acts 15:1, Acts 15:24, 2 Corinthians 2:17, 2 Corinthians 4:2, 1 Timothy 4:1-3, 2 Timothy 2:18, 2 Timothy 3:8, 2 Timothy 3:9, 2 Timothy 4:3, 2 Timothy 4:4, Titus 1:10, Titus 1:11, 2 Peter 2:1-3, 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:19, 1 John 2:26, 1 John 4:1, 2 John 1:7, 2 John 1:10, Jude 1:4, Revelation 2:2, Revelation 2:6, Revelation 2:14, Revelation 2:15, Revelation 2:20, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 13:14, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:3

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 23:36 - for ye Matthew 26:10 - Why Acts 15:19 - that Acts 20:27 - I have Romans 1:16 - the gospel 1 Corinthians 1:13 - Christ 1 Corinthians 3:11 - General 2 Corinthians 11:4 - another gospel 2 Corinthians 11:12 - them 2 Corinthians 11:29 - and I burn Ephesians 4:5 - one faith Ephesians 4:14 - tossed Philippians 1:27 - the gospel Philippians 3:18 - enemies 1 Timothy 1:3 - charge 1 Timothy 6:3 - any 2 Timothy 2:14 - the subverting

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:15
and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:29
And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.
Job 26:8
He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it.
Psalms 104:10
He sends the springs into the valleys; They flow among the hills.
Psalms 148:4
Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which is not another,.... It is no Gospel, no joyful sound, no good news, and glad tidings; the doctrine which attributes justification to the works of the law, or mixes grace and works in the business of salvation, which was the doctrine of these false teachers, is no Gospel; not truly so, however it may be called; nor does it bring any solid peace and joy to distressed minds. There is but one pure Gospel of the grace of God, and Christ, and his apostles; there is not one and another; there is but one faith, one doctrine and scheme of faith; the Gospel is single and uniform, all of a piece, has no yea and nay, or contradiction in it; this trumpet gives no uncertain sound, nor any dreadful, but a joyful one:

but there be some that trouble you; meaning the false apostles, whose names he does not think fit to mention, as being unworthy to be named, and to have their names transmitted to posterity. These troubled the churches with their doctrines and principles, by raising disputes and controversies among them, injecting doubts and scruples into their minds, which puzzled and confounded them, and made them uneasy, and which broke in upon that peace of soul which the Gospel brings and establishes; for no true solid peace is attained to, and enjoyed, but by the doctrine of justification by the righteousness of Christ, pardon by his blood, and atonement by his sacrifice, which the doctrine of justification by works, c. tends to destroy.

And would pervert the Gospel of Christ which has Christ for its author, subject, and preacher; and particularly the doctrine of justification by his righteousness, which they sought to change, to throw into a different shape and form, to adulterate by mixing it with the works of the law, and so, if possible, destroy it: to this they showed a good will, but were not able to effect, for the Gospel is an everlasting one; it is immovable, and so is that particular doctrine of it; it remains, and will remain in spite of opposition to it. Thus the apostle prudently lays the blame of the Galatians removing from the Gospel to another upon the false teachers, hoping he should be able to reclaim them by solid arguments, and gentle methods.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which is not another - There is also a great variety of views in regard to the meaning of this expression. Tyndale translates it: “which is nothing else but there be some that trouble you.” Locke, “which is not owing to anything else but only this, that ye are troubled with a certain sort of people who would overturn the gospel of Christ.” But Rosenmuller, Koppe, Bloomfield, and others, give a different view; and according to them the sense is, “which, however, is not another gospel, nor indeed the gospel at all, or true,” etc. According to this, the design was to state, that what they taught had none of the elements or characteristics of the gospel. It was a different system, and one which taught an entirely different method of justification before God. It seems to me that this is the true sense of the passage, and that Paul means to teach them that the system, though it was called the gospel, was essentially different from that which he had taught, and which consisted in simple reliance on Christ for salvation. The system which they taught, was in fact the Mosaic system; the Jewish mode, depending on the rites and ceremonies of religion; and which, therefore, did not deserve to be called the gospel. It would lead them again with burdensome rites, and with cumbrous institutions, from which it was the great purpose of the gospel to relieve them.

But there be some that trouble you - Though this is most manifestly another system, and not the gospel at all, yet there are some persons who are capable of giving trouble and of unsettling your minds, by making it plausible. They pretend that they have come direct front the apostles at Jerusalem; that they have received their instructions from them, and that they preach the true gospel as they teach it. They pretend that Paul was called into the office of an apostle after them; that he had never seen the Lord Jesus; that he had derived his information only from others; and thus they are able to present a plausible argument, and to unsettle the minds of the Galatians.

And would pervert - That is, the tendency of their doctrine is wholly to turn away (μεταστρέψαι metastrepsai), to destroy, or render useless the gospel of Christ. It would lead to the denial of the necessity of dependence on the merits of the Lord Jesus for salvation, and would substitute dependence on rites and ceremonies. This does not of necessity mean that such was the design of their teaching, for they might have been in the main honest; but that such was the tendency and result of their teaching. It would lead people to rely on the Mosaic rites for salvation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. Which is not another — It is called a gospel, but it differs most essentially from the authentic narratives published by the evangelists. It is not gospel, i.e. good tidings, for it loads you again with the burdens from which the genuine Gospel has disencumbered you. Instead of giving you peace, it troubles you; instead of being a useful supplement to the Gospel of Christ, it perverts that Gospel. You have gained nothing but loss and damage by the change.


 
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