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Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT

Galatians 5:7-10

You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

Don't just run. Run well. Do your best.

Hinder is not a "roadblock". It is a "detour".

Hinder is not total collapse; just a "slowdown" obstacle.

8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump."One rotten apple spoils the bushel."

10 I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

Preachers must have confidence, never give up.

One who lacks confidence in the power of his message should get out of the pulpit.

Never doubt the gospel's power. Romans 1:16

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See also Galatians 5:7-10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 7. _YE DID RUN WELL_] Ye once had the faith that worked by love-ye were genuine, active, useful Christians. _WHO DOTH HINDER_] Who prevented you from continuing to obey the truth? Ye could onl...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YE DID RUN WELL - The Christian life is often represented as a race; see the notes at 1 Corinthians 9:24. Paul means here, that they began the Christian life with ardour and zeal; compare Galatians 4:...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    III. THE WALK OF THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER, AS NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Stand fast! Be not entangled! (Galatians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations and the law of love. (Galatians 5:7) 3....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Final emphatic statement of the dilemma, Christ or circumcision. Paul, speaking with all authority in spite of false inferences drawn from his circumcising Timothy (Galatians 5:11) and in spite of pro...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Look now it is I, Paul, who am speaking to you I tell you that if you get yourself circumcised Christ is no good to you. Again I give my word to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is under...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    AN OLD STORY AND A NEW MEANING (Galatians 4:21-31 ; Galatians 5:1) 5:1 Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? Well, then, it stands writte...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DID RUN. were running. DID HINDER. impeded. Greek. _anakopto_. Only here. But the texts read _enkopto_. See Acts 24:4, OBEY. Greek. _peitho_. App-150. THE TRUTH. i.e. Christ (John 14:6)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The abruptness of thought and style is a marked feature of these two Chapter s. It is not always possible to trace the connexion with certainty. _Ye did run well_ -You were running nobly". The metapho...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    _Against continuing in retrogression; with sharp words against the leader and the false teachers generally_ (Galatians 5:7) You were running your race nobly; who hindered you, so that (to drop all met...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἘΝΈΚΟΨΕΝ אABCD etc. ἀνέκοψε[135] Text. Rec. with a few cursives. [135] Is affixed to a word it means that all the passages are mentioned where that word occurs in the New Testament. 7. ἘΤΡΈΧΕΤΕ ΚΑΛΩ͂...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    _Another, but sharper, appeal and warning. The observance of the Law is inconsistent with faith in Christ _...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΈΤΡΈΧΕΤΕ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΤΡΈΧΩ (G5143) бежать, участвовать в гонке (_см._ Galatians 2:2). ΚΑΛΏΣ (G2573) хорошо, ΈΝΈΚΟΨΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΓΚΌΠΤΩ (G1465) вмешиваться, мешать. Имеется в виду...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHO DID HINDER YOU, &C.— The word 'Ανεκοψε, rendered _hinder,_ is an olympic expression, answerable to the word rendered _ye did run:_ and it properly signifies, "Coming across the course,while a pers...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A Word of Protest Galatians 5:7-12 TEXT 5:7-9 (7) Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth? (8) This persuasion came not of him that calleth you. (9) A little leaven...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    _VERSE 7. YE DID RUN WELL; WHO DID HINDER YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH?_ VERSE 7. Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? [ Etrechete (G5143)] 'Ye were running well' in the Gospel race (1 Corinthians 9:24; 1 Corinthians 9:26;...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    1 This paragraph is the summary and conclusion of the doctrinal argument. Tersely, he puts the case. Which shall it be _ Christ _ or _ circumcision_!' No half hearted allegiance here, no serving of tw...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:7 stopped (a-6) The proper sense is 'to stop by cutting off the way.' As 'hinder,' Romans 15:22 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:18 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY 1-12. The futility of seeking justification by attempting to comply with the demands of the Mosaic Law; the inconsistency of works and faith as methods of salvation. P...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RUN WELL] before the Judaisers misled you. WHO DID HINDER] a rhetorical question....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE V1 We have freedom because Christ has made us free. Be certain that you remain free. You must not allow yourselv...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In this verse, Paul used words that described a race. Sometimes people tried to push a runner onto a different track. This would cause him problems. And he would not be able to win the race. Paul ofte...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (7-12) All was going well at first. What sudden intruder has stopped your path and led you astray? Certainly it is not God, to whom you owe your calling, that has persuaded you to such a course. You t...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YE DID RUN WELL. — Again, as in Galatians 2:2, a metaphor from foot racing. The Galatians had made a good start, but suddenly changed their course. WHO DID HINDER YOU? — The metaphor here is not quit...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 21 THE HINDERERS AND TROUBLERS. Galatians 5:7 THE Apostle's controversy with the Legalists is all but concluded. He has pronounced on the question of circumcision. He has shown his readers,...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἐνέκοψεν. The figure of a race, introduced by ἐτρέχετε, is here carried on. Hitherto they had run a smooth course of obedience to truth; who had thrown obstacles in their way?...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    to Galatians 5:12. Freedom is our birthright in Christ and an essential condition of our call. Accordingly the Apostle protests against the claim that all Christians should be circumcised, as a depart...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    HOLD FAST YOUR FREEDOM Galatians 5:1 We are free. The Son has made us free, and we are free indeed, though not free to disobey the dictates and promptings of our new nature. We are set free from minu...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The whole law of liberty is stated in the sentences, "For freedom did Christ set us free," "stand fast therefore," and "be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage." He then refers first to circumcis...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (6) Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (6) Again he chides the Galatians, but with both an admiration and a praise of their former race, so that he may make them m...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (6) For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (7) Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (8) This...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._Ye did run well_. The censure which the apostle administers for their present departure from the truth is mingled with approbation of their former course, for the express purpose that, by being bro...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    It is in this liberty, the liberty of Christ, alluding to the free woman and Jerusalem above, that they were to stand fast, and not put themselves again under the yoke of the law. If they took that gr...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YE DID RUN WELL,.... In the Christian race; when they first set out in a profession of religion, they embraced and held fast, and were zealously attached to the truths of the Gospel; they were in the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? Ver. 7. _Ye did run well_] Why do ye now stop or step back? _Tutius recurrere quam male currere, _ was the Emperor Philip's symb...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Ye did run well_ In the race of faith, love, and obedience; in true, genuine Christianity; believing its truths, experiencing its graces, enjoying its privileges, performing its duties. The exercises...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Paul warns against the leaven of false doctrine:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    YE DID RUN WELL; WHO DID HINDER YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH?...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    LIBERTY TO BE PRACTICED (vs.1-6) Chapter 4 dealt with the perfect freedom introduced by God Himself through Christ, freedom given to all who have been redeemed by His precious blood, freedom from the...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WHO DID HINDER YOU: Or, who did drive you back?...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-12 The life of a Christian is a race, wherein he must run, and hold on, if he would obtain the prize. It is not enough that we profess Christianity, but we must run well, by living up to that profe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This was once your faith, your profession, and according to this you directed the course of your life and actions; who hath hindered you in your course, or turned you out of your way, or given you a c...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics and, "Ye did run so well; who hath hindered you? "[293] Homily on Habib the Martyr For this-that he might speak of Him without hindrance.[5]...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Galatians 5:7 ran G5143 (G5707) well G2573 Who G5101 hindered G348 (G5656) (G5625) G1465 you...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PAUL IS PUZZLED BY THEIR FAILURE AND ANGRY AT THOSE WHO HAVE LED THEM ASTRAY (GALATIANS 5:7). Paul now again expresses his deep puzzlement at their behaviour. He just cannot understand how they can b...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘You were running well. Who hindered you that you should not obey the truth?' Their progress and growth had been fully satisfactory, who was it now then who was hindering them from obeying the truth?...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Galatians 5:7. Ye WERE RUINING BRAVELY. The martial and heroic spirit of Paul often compares the course of Christian life with the running of a RACE in the stadium. Comp. Galatians 2:2; Philippians 3:...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    _Exhortation to Steadfastness in Christian Freedom_, _and Warning against Legal Bondage._ Here begins the practical part of the Epistle, consisting of exhortations and warnings appropriate to the occ...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    Who did hinder you? (τις υμας ενεκοψεν?). First aorist active indicative of ενκοπτω, to cut in on one, for all the world like our use of one cutting in on us at the telephone. For this late verb see o...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Galatians 5:7 Spiritual Declension. I. The first test to which we would bring the professing Christian who is anxious to determine whether he is ceasing to run well is that furnished by secret prayer...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage._ «You are not under the law, but under grace. Do not subje...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Galatians 5:1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ had made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Chris...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Liberty of the believer in Christ, apart from the law. Conflict of flesh and the Spirit. Christian character the result of the Spirit's work not self-effort. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,_ by the redemption he has procured through the shedding of his own most precious blood. The liberty of your cele...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    YOU WERE DOING SO WELL! "You were making such great progress in the Good News of Christ! You were really _living_ God's truth!!! How could you let anyone talk you out of it???...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ye did run well; who did hinder you, that ye should not obey the truth._ I. The concession--“Ye did run well.” 1. Christianity is like a race. (1) It is laborious. (2) It is brief. (3) It gives...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 5:1 Those who turn to the law for salvation cut themselves off from salvation. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. S. Paul proceeds to urge the Galatians not to submit to the yoke of the Old Law, lest they be deprived of the fruits of Christ's righteousness, since in Him neit...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 5:9. A LITTLE LEAVEN.—Of false doctrine, a small amount of evil influence. Galatians 5:10. HE THAT TROUBLETH YOU.—The leaven traced to personal agency; whoe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GALATIANS 5:1 GALATIANS 5:2 BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU (ἴδε, ἐγὼ Παῦλος λώγω ὑμῖν); _lo_,_ I Paul say unto you. _The adverbial exclamation ἴδε, found in St. Paul's writings on...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Galatians chapter five. The whole concept is: how do I establish a righteous standing before God? Can I be righteous by keeping the law? Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Je...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 9:24; 1 Peter 1:22; 2 Corinthians 10:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:8;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Ye did run [ε τ ρ ε χ ε τ ε]. Better, as giving the force of the imperfect, ye were running. You were on the right road, and were making good progress when this interruption occurred. Comp. chapter Ga...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Much is written about the Holy Spirit in the Word of God. The Epistles of Paul are freighted with many marvelous messages relative to the Sp...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ye did run well — In the race of faith. Who hath hindered you in your course, that ye should not still obey the truth?...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    YE DID RUN WELL; that is, in the race of Christianity; you set out well at first, and received the gospel in the plainness and simplicity of it, without any mixture of Jewish ceremonies: What hindered...

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