Galatians 5:20-22

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Galatians 5:20 tn Or “witchcraft.”
2. Galatians 5:20 tn Or “enmities,” “[acts of] hatred.”
3. Galatians 5:20 tn Or “discord” (L&N 39.22).
4. Galatians 5:20 tn Or “discord(s)” (L&N 39.13).
5. Galatians 5:21 tn This term is plural in Greek (as is “murder” and “carousing”), but for clarity these abstract nouns have been translated as singular.
6. Galatians 5:21 tc ‡ φόνοι (phonoi, “murders”) is absent in such significant mss as P⁴⁶ א B 33 81 323 945 sa, while the majority of mss (A C D F G Ψ 0122 0278 1175 1241 1505 1739 1881 2464 M lat bo) have the word. Although the pedigree of the mss which lack the term is of the highest degree, homoioteleuton may explain the shorter reading. The preceding word has merely one letter difference, making it quite possible to overlook this term (φθόνοι φόνοι, phthonoi phonoi). At the same time, φθόνου φόνου (phthonou phonou, “envy, murder”) is solidly attested in Rom 1:29, suggesting that scribes were not necessarily prone to dropping “murder” accidentally. A decision is difficult, with a slight preference for phonoi here.
7. Galatians 5:21 tn Or “revelings,” “orgies” (L&N 88.287).
8. Galatians 5:22 tn That is, the fruit the Spirit produces.
9. Galatians 5:22 sn Another way to punctuate this is “love” followed by a colon (love: joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control). It is thus possible to read the eight characteristics following “love” as defining love.
10. Galatians 5:22 tn Or “reliability”; see BDAG 818 s.v. πίστις 1.a.