Galatians 1:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our 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 am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
• Eph 2:2 : 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that 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 them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
• Rom 4:25 : 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
• Phil 4:20 : 20 ¶ Now unto God and our Father [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
• Heb 6:5 : 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
• Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 ¶ For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] 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 pride 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 perceive we the love [of God], 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 born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
• 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 [And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may 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, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
• 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 ¶ Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
• 1 Thess 3:11 : 11 ¶ Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
• Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Eph 6:12 : 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
• Matt 26:28 : 28 ‹For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.›
• Matt 26:42 : 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, ‹O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.›
• Mark 10:45 : 45 ‹For even the Son of man 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 gave thanks, and brake [it], and gave unto 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 mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.›
• John 6:38 : 38 ‹For I came 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 giveth his life for the sheep.›
• John 10:17-18 : 17 ‹Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.› 18 ‹No man taketh it 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 have I received of 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 ‹Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and 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 hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.› 19 ‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›
• John 17:14-15 : 14 ‹I have given them thy word; and the world hath 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 out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.›
• Rom 1:7 : 7 To all that be 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 with him also 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 shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
• Matt 6:9 : 9 ¶ ‹After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.›
• Gal 6:14 : 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Eph 1:2-3 : 2 Grace [be] to you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 ¶ Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ:
• Heb 9:14 : 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 ¶ Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].
• Heb 2:5 : 5 ¶ For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
• Rev 7:9 : 9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;