Galatians 1:4

American Standard Version (1901)

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοῦ δόντος ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν, ὅπως ἐξέληται ἡμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος αἰῶνος πονηροῦ, κατὰ τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς ἡμῶν:

Transliteration

The one having dontos himself hyper the hamartiōn of us, so that he might exelētai us from the enestōtos aiōnos ponērou, according to the thelēma of the Theou and Patros of us:

Grammar Details

• *Tou dontos*: genitive, masculine, singular, aorist active participle - in apposition to Christou
• *heauton*: accusative, masculine, singular, reflexive pronoun - direct object
• *hyper*: preposition with genitive - on behalf of/for
• *tōn hamartiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - object of preposition hyper
• *hēmōn*: genitive, first person plural - possessive
• *hopōs*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *exelētai*: aorist middle subjunctive, 3rd person singular - purpose clause
• *hēmas*: accusative, first person plural - direct object of exelētai
• *ek*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
• *tou enestōtos*: genitive, masculine, singular, perfect active participle - present/current
• *aiōnos*: genitive, masculine, singular - age/era
• *ponērou*: genitive, masculine, singular, adjective - evil/wicked
• *kata*: preposition with accusative - according to/in line with
• *to thelēma*: accusative, neuter, singular - object of preposition kata
• *tou Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive
• *Patros*: genitive, masculine, singular - in apposition to Theou

Word Meanings

• *dontos*: given/granted/offered
• *hyper*: on behalf of/for/concerning
• *hamartiōn*: sins/errors/failures
• *exelētai*: deliver/rescue/remove
• *enestōtos*: present/current/at hand
• *aiōnos*: age/era/world/eternity
• *ponērou*: evil/wicked/corrupt
• *thelēma*: will/desire/purpose

Referenced Verses

• Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
• Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• Eph 2:2 : 2 wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them] .
• Rom 4:25 : 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
• Phil 4:20 : 20 Now unto our God and Father [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony [to be borne] in its own times;
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
• Heb 6:5 : 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
• Eph 1:11 : 11 in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• 1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
• 1 John 5:4-5 : 4 For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, [even] our faith. 5 And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
• 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
• 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• 1 Thess 3:11 : 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:
• Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
• Eph 6:12 : 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places] .
• Matt 26:28 : 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.
• Matt 26:42 : 42 Again a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, My Father, if this cannot pass away, except I drink it, thy will be done.
• Mark 10:45 : 45 For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
• Luke 22:19 : 19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
• Luke 22:42 : 42 saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
• John 5:30 : 30 I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
• John 6:38 : 38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
• John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
• John 10:17-18 : 17 Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18 No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from my Father.
• John 12:31 : 31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
• John 14:30-31 : 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me; 31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
• John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
• John 17:14-15 : 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil [one] .
• Rom 1:7 : 7 To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• Rom 8:27 : 27 and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.
• Rom 8:32 : 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?
• Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Isa 65:17 : 17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
• Matt 6:9 : 9 After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
• Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Eph 1:2-3 : 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ:
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me; 6 In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure: 7 Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God. 8 Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), 9 then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
• Heb 2:5 : 5 For not unto angels did he subject the world to come, whereof we speak.
• Rev 7:9 : 9 After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of [all] tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;