Galatians 1 · Verse 7

Galatians 1:7

Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

Galatians 1:7, King James Version

Galatians 1:7 in other translations

BSB	which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
WEB	but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
ASV	which is not another gospel: only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
YLT	that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;
DARBY	which is not another one; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.
BBE	Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.
Webster	Which is not another; but there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

What does Galatians 1:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. another--A distinct Greek word from that in Ga 1:6. Though I called it a gospel (Ga 1:6), it is not really so. There is really but one Gospel, and no other gospel. but--Translate, "Only that there are some that trouble you," &c. (Ga 5:10, 12). All I meant by the "different gospel" was nothing but a perversion by "some" of the one Gospel of Christ. would pervert--Greek, "wish to pervert"; they could not really pervert the Gospel, though they could pervert Gospel professors (compare Ga 4:9, 17, 21; 6:12, 13; Col 2:18). Though acknowledging Christ, they insisted on circumcision and Jewish ordinances and professed to rest on the authority of other apostles, namely, Peter and James. But Paul recognizes no gospel, save the pure Gospel.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes

Verse 7. Which is not another. There is also a great variety of views in regard to the meaning of this expression. Tindal 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 men 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 load 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 from 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, μεταστρεψαι, 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 men to rely on the Mosaic rites for salvation.

(b) "which is not another" 2Cor 11:4 (c) "pervert" Acts 15:1,24, 2Cor 2:17, Gal 5:10,12

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Galatians 1:6-9

Those who would establish any other way to heaven than what the gospel of Christ reveals, will find themselves wretchedly mistaken. The apostle presses upon the Galatians a due sense of their guilt in forsaking the gospel way of justification; yet he reproves with tenderness, and represents them as drawn into it by the arts of some that troubled them. In reproving others, we should be faithful, and yet endeavour to…

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Galatians 1:7 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ὃhowhichG3739

οὐκouknotG3756

ἔστινestinisG1510

ἄλλο,alloanother,G243

εἰeionlyG1487

μήmēexceptG3361

τινέςtinessomeG5100

εἰσινeisinthere areG1510

οἱhoiwhoG3588

ταράσσοντεςtarassontesare troublingG5015

ὑμᾶςhumasyouG4771

καὶkaiandG2532

θέλοντεςthelontesare desiringG2309

μεταστρέψαιmetastrepsaito pervertG3344

τὸtotheG3588

εὐαγγέλιονeuangeliongospelG2098

τοῦtou<the>G3588

Χριστοῦ.Christouof Christ.G5547

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Cross references for Galatians 1:7

Acts 15:24
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Romans 16:17-18
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Galatians 5:10
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Acts 15:1-5
And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them. …
Revelation 20:3
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
1 John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Galatians 5:12
I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
2 John 1:10
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
Titus 1:10-11
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

but.
2:4; 4:17; 5:10,12; 6:12,13,17; Ac 15:1-5,24; 20:30; Ro 16:17,18
2Co 11:13
pervert.
5:10,12; Jer 23:26; Mt 24:24; Ac 13:10; 15:1,24; 2Co 2:17; 4:2
1Ti 4:1-3; 2Ti 2:18; 3:8,9; 4:3,4; Tit 1:10,11; 2Pe 2:1-3
1Jo 2:18,19,26; 4:1; 2Jo 1:7,10; Jude 1:4; Re 2:2,6,14,15,20; 12:9
Re 13:14; 19:20; 20:3

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Context

Galatians 1:6
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Galatians 1:7
Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Galatians 1:8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

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Galatians 1:7 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	No que hay otro, sino que hay algunos que os inquietan, y quieren pervertir el evangelio de Cristo.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	qui n’en est pas un autre; mais il y a des gens qui vous troublent, et qui veulent pervertir l’évangile du Christ.
German Elberfelder 1871	welches kein anderes ist; nur daß etliche sind, die euch verwirren und das Evangelium des Christus verkehren wollen.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	quod non est aliud, nisi sunt aliqui qui vos conturbant, et volunt convertere Evangelium Christi.