Galatians 5:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐτρέχετε καλῶς· τίς ὑμᾶς ἀνέκοψεν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ μὴ πείθεσθαι;

Transliteration

You were etrechete kalōs; who you anekopsen tē alētheia mē peithesthai?

Grammar Details

• *etrechete*: imperfect, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - were running/progressing
• *kalōs*: adverb - well/nobly/excellently
• *anekopsen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - hindered/prevented/cut in on
• *tē alētheia*: dative, feminine, singular - by/with the truth
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *peithesthai*: present, middle, infinitive - to obey/be persuaded by/trust

Word Meanings

• *etrechete*: were running/progressing/advancing
• *kalōs*: well/nobly/excellently
• *anekopsen*: hindered/prevented/cut in on/impeded
• *alētheia*: truth/reality/genuineness
• *peithesthai*: to obey/be persuaded by/trust/follow

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 9:24 : 24 Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.
• Gal 3:1 : 1 O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently:
• Heb 12:1 : 1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
• Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, {G1161} ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
• Matt 13:21 : 21 yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth.
• Acts 6:7 : 7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
• Rom 2:8 : 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation,
• 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
• Rom 10:16 : 16 But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
• Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
• Rom 16:26 : 26 but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:
• 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
• Heb 5:9 : 9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
• Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.