Galatians 5:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

Galatians 5:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 1:6
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

In the former part of this chapter the apostle cautions the Galatians to take heed of the judaizing teachers, who endeavoured to bring them back under the bondage of the law. He had been arguing against them before, and had largely shown how contrary the principles and spirit of those teachers were to the spirit of the gospel; and now this is as it were the general inference or application of all…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. This persuasion--Greek, “The persuasion,” namely, to which you are yielding. There is a play on words in the original, the Greek for persuasion being akin to “obey” (Ga 5:7). This persuasion which ye have obeyed. cometh not of--that is “from.” Does not emanate from Him, but from an enemy. that calleth you--(Ga 5:13; Ga 1:6; Php 3:14; 1Th 5:24). The calling is the rule of the whole race [Bengel]…