Galatians 5:18
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not
under the law.
a. NLT: But when
you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of
Moses.
b. NIV: But if you
are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
c. YLT: and if by
the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.
d. Amplified Bible
Classic: But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, you are not subject
to the Law.
e. Worrell
Translation: But, if ye are being led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law
1. “But if ye be led of the Spirit…”
a. But [1161 * de]
[Strong: a primary particle (adversative or continuative); but, and,
etc.:--also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).]
b. if [1487 * ei]
[Strong: a primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that,
etc.:--forasmuch as, if, that, (al-)though, whether.]
c. ye be led [71 *
ago] [Strong: a primary verb; properly, to lead; by implication, to bring,
drive, (reflexively) go, (specially) pass (time), or (figuratively) induce:--be,
bring (forth), carry, (let) go, keep, lead away, be open.]
d. of the Spirit [4151
* pneuma] [Strong: from 4154; a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a
breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul,
(by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an
angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit:--ghost, life,
spirit(-ual, -ually), mind.]
2. “…ye are not under the law.”
a. ye are [2075 *
este] [Strong: second person plural present indicative of 1510; ye are:--be,
have been, belong.]
b. not [3756 * ou;
also (before a vowel) ouk; and (before an aspirate) ouch] [Strong: a
primary word; the absolute negative (compare 3361) adverb; no or not:--+ long,
nay, neither, never, no (X man), none, (can-)not, + nothing, + special,
un(-worthy), when, + without, + yet but.]
c. under [5259 *
hupo] [Strong: a primary preposition; under, i.e. (with the genitive case) of
place (beneath), or with verbs (the agency or means, through); (with the
accusative case) of place (whither (underneath) or where (below) or time (when
(at)):--among, by, from, in, of, under, with. In the comparative, it retains
the same general applications, especially of inferior position or condition,
and specially, covertly or moderately.]
d. the law [3551 *
nomos] [Strong: from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing
to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case
(regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel),
or figuratively (a principle):--law.]
1). Vincent Word
Studies: We might have expected, from what precedes, under the flesh. But the
law and the flesh are in the same category. Circumcision was a requirement of
the law, and was a work of the flesh. The ordinances of the law were ordinances
of the flesh (Hebrews 9:10, Hebrews 9:13); the law was weak through the
flesh (Romans 8:3). See especially, Galatians 3:2-6. In Philippians
3:3 ff. Paul explains his grounds for confidence in the flesh as his legal
righteousness. The whole legal economy was an economy of the flesh as
distinguished from the Spirit.
2). Though most
teach this is referring to the Mosaic law, but I have to also figure in “the
law of sin and death”.
a). Romans 8:2, 3 For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of
sin and death.
8:3 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:
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