In this Substack series, I am sharing my personal translation with my Substack readers—but a few heads up notes. #1: This is unrelated to my work with the New Living Translation. This is a “for my benefit” kind of translation, as I process the words Paul used and how they make sense then and now. #2: I want to give you advance notice that I will share my Galatians chapters 1-3 for free, but chs 4-6 will be only for the Engaging Scripture Superfans (=paid subscribers). #3: I would be happy to engage with brief comments and questions here on Substack; but I won’t be offering long explanations, because you can find all of that in my commentary. BTW: none of my published works or forthcoming works include this translation. This is a Substack exclusive!
Footnotes: they are a bit hard to distinguish from the verse numbers; FYI: the footnotes are in purple. If you hover over a number and it is hyperlinked, it is a footnote.
INDEX:
Galatians Chapter One
Galatians Chapter Two
Chapter 5
Faith and Freedom, Not Fear and Flesh
1 Christ freed us so we could live in true freedom!1 Hold your ground, then, and don’t let yourself be forced into slavery2 again! 2 Pay attention!3 I, Paul, boldly state this: if you accept circumcision, Christ will lose all meaning for you.
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