Galatians 1:4

World English Bible (2000)

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, 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 served, but to serve, and to give his life as 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. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• Eph 2:2 : 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
• Rom 12:2 : 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• Rom 4:25 : 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
• Phil 4:20 : 20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
• 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 to the end he may establish your hearts blameless 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 bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for 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 assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
• Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes 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 you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. 17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.
• 1 John 3:16 : 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• 1 John 5:4-5 : 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
• 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, 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 Christ, direct our way to you;
• Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• Eph 6:12 : 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
• Matt 26:28 : 28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
• Matt 26:42 : 42 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."
• Mark 10:45 : 45 For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
• Luke 22:19 : 19 He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."
• Luke 22:42 : 42 saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."
• John 5:30 : 30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
• John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
• John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
• John 10:17-18 : 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."
• John 12:31 : 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
• John 14:30-31 : 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
• John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
• John 17:14-15 : 14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
• Rom 1:7 : 7 to all who 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 couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• Rom 8:27 : 27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
• Rom 8:32 : 32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
• Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your 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 Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
• Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to 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 has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to 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 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me; 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'" 8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), 9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes 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 he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.
• Rev 7:9 : 9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.