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I am surprised and astonished that you are so quickly [a]turning renegade and deserting Him Who invited and called you [b]by the grace (unmerited favor) of Christ (the Messiah) [and that you are transferring your allegiance] to a different [even an opposition] gospel.

Not that there is [or could be] any other [genuine Gospel], but there are [obviously] some who are troubling and disturbing and bewildering you [[c]with a different kind of teaching which they offer as a gospel] and want to pervert and distort the Gospel of Christ (the Messiah) [into something which it absolutely is not].

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to and different from that which we preached to you, let him be accursed (anathema, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment)!

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 1:6 Joseph P. Lightfoot, Notes on the Epistles of Saint Paul.
  2. Galatians 1:6 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
  3. Galatians 1:7 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.

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