to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Passages linked to Galatians 1:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Romans 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
- Jude 1:25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
- Psalms 72:19 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
- Hebrews 13:21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Chronicles 29:13 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
- Psalms 41:13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.
- Isaiah 24:15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
- Isaiah 42:12 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.
- Matthew 6:13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
- Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
- Romans 16:27
- Ephesians 1:12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.
- Philippians 4:20 Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
- 1 Timothy 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Peter 5:11 To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
- 2 Peter 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
- Revelation 4:9-11 When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
- Revelation 5:12 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
- Revelation 7:12 saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
- Revelation 14:7 He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”
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Martin Luther 1535 · Public Domain VERSE 5. To whom be glory for ever and…
VERSE 5. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrew writing is interspersed with expressions of praise and gratitude. This peculiarity can be traced in the apostolic writings, particularly in those of Paul. The name of the Lord is to be mentioned with great reverence and thanksgiving.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 5. To whom be glory. By this sudden exclamation…
5. To whom be glory. By this sudden exclamation of thanksgiving, he intends to awaken powerfully in his readers the contemplation of that invaluable gift which they had received from God, and in this manner to prepare their minds more fully for receiving instruction. It must at the same time be viewed as a general exhortation. Every instance in which the mercy of God occurs to our remembrance, ought to be embraced by us as an occasion of ascribing glory to God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever.…
5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Ver. 5. To whom be glory] The benefit of our redemption should make us lift up many a humble, joyful, and thankful heart to God.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To which Father, (yet not excluding the Son), for…
To which Father, (yet not excluding the Son), for do great benefits bestowed upon us, be honour, and praise, from age to age, and to all eternity. The term Amen, being always used in Scripture either as a term of assertion, to aver the truth of a thing, or as a term of wishing, may here be understood in either or both senses; the apostle using it either to assert the glorifying of God to be our duty, and a homage we owe to God; or to signify his hearty desire that this homage may from all hands be paid unto him.
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William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain That is, "To God the Father, and Christ Jesus…
That is, "To God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Redeemer, be given the highest degrees of honour and glory, throughout the present and eternal ages."
Note here, 1. The work and duty incumbent upon Christ’s redeemed ones, and that is, to ascribe all honour and homage, all glory and praise to God the Father, as the contriver, and to Christ the Son, as the accomplisher of the work of redemption; To whom, both whom, be glory.
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Note, 2. The duration and continuance of this duty; not for a day, or year, but for eternal ages. This duty of ascribing honour and homage, glory and praise to the Father and Mediator, for the glorious work of man’s redemption, is such, that it can never be sufficiently discharged, but requires a succession of ages to perform it in: yea, eternity itself is too short for the performance of it: To whom be glory for ever and ever. The glory of the Redeemer, and of him that sent him to redeem, will be the long-lasting, and never-ending song of redeemed ones, through millions of ages, yea, to all eternity; a work begun on earth, never finished in heaven.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.…
To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. That is, either to Christ, who gave himself to expiate the sins of his people, on the account of which all honour and glory are due to him from them; or to God the Father, according to whose will of purpose and command Christ gave himself, for which glory ought to be ascribed unto him; and it may well be thought, that both are taken into this doxology: the Father is to be glorified, who of his everlasting love, and free favour, did in his eternal purposes and decrees in his counsel and covenant, so wisely frame and order things, that his own Son should be given to be an offering for sin; and Christ is to be glorified, that he, of his free rich grace and love, agreed to give himself, and did give himself to be a ransom for his people, which has been testified in due time. This ascription of glory to both shows the greatness of the blessing, and the grateful sense which all interested in it ought to bear upon their minds continually, "for ever and ever"; or "to the ages of ages", a Jewish phrase, the same with (c). To which the apostle adds his "Amen", as joining with all the saints, above or below, in ascribing salvation, and the glory of it, to him that sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.
(c) Zohar in Gen. fol. 72. 3.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain To whom be glory - For this his gracious…
To whom be glory - For this his gracious will.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. To whom be glory for ever] Let…
Verse 5. To whom be glory for ever] Let him have the glory to whom alone it is due, for having delivered us from the present evil world, and from all bondage to Mosaic rites and ceremonies.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain To whom be glory ... - Let Him have…
To whom be glory ... - Let Him have all the praise and honor of the plan and its execution. It is not uncommon for Paul to introduce an ascription of praise in the midst of an argument: see the note at Rom 1:25. It results from the strong desire which he had, that all the glory should be given to God, and showed that he believed that all blessings had their origin in God, and that God should be always acknowledged.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain be glory--rather, as Greek, "be the glory"; the glory…
be glory--rather, as Greek, "be the glory"; the glory which is peculiarly and exclusively His. Compare Note, see on Eph 3:21.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. This complete cycle of gospel thought St. Paul…
5. This complete cycle of gospel thought St. Paul rounds out with a doxology, as in Rom_11:36; Rom_9:5; Rom_16:27; Eph_3:21; 1Ti_1:17.
Be glory—Rather, the glory, with the article; that is, (not, as Alford and Lightfoot, the glory belonging to him, but) the glory of so glorious a redemption. “God’s all the glory—man’s the endless bliss.”
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For ever and ever—Literal Greek, into aeons of aeons—into ages of ages. The phrase does not, with absolute exactness, express eternity, but only indefinite immensity. It does not absolutely deny all end, but ignores all end. It was, no doubt, the most powerful phrase to express eternity, and to explode from thought all idea of end that the language of the New Testament age knew. Hence it is here used to designate the duration of the existence of the divine glory. It may be added that the word aeon, in this phrase, is the same as that in the previous verse, which we have rendered time-world. This phrase, then, suggests that the endless future is not to be a quiet characterless stream, but a perpetual roll of stupendous revolutions.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. to whom be glory … Amen] perh. ‘the…
5. to whom be glory … Amen] perh. ‘the glory’. All the glory of the great work of Redemption, in its design, in its process, in its results, is His alone and shall be throughout eternity.
Amen] A Hebrew word, signifying ‘truth,’ used to express concurrence in the prayer or praise uttered by another, especially in public worship. Deu_27:15; 1Ch_16:36. From the synagogue it passed into the acts of worship of the Christian Church (1Co_14:16). Here it is employed as an emphatic affirmation of the ascription to which it is appended. Comp. Psa_72:19; Rev_1:18; Rev_22:20.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) Glory.—Perhaps, properly, the glory—i.e., the divine glory: that…
(5) Glory.—Perhaps, properly, the glory—i.e., the divine glory: that pre-eminent glory with which no other can compare.
If this is the case, then it would be better to supply “is” than “be.” His own peculiar glory does belong to God, and therefore the Christian ascribes it to Him as that which is already His; he does not pray for it as something unfulfilled, as, e.g., he prays for the coming of God’s kingdom.
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In the insertion of this brief doxology the mind of the Apostle obeys an involuntary impulse of reverential awe. For a similar ascription in the same parenthetic form, comp. Rom_9:5.
For ever and ever.—Literally, for ages of ages, a Hebraising expression for infinite time. Commonly, time was divided only into two great world-periods; but the second is, as it were, multiplied indefinitely—“for all possible ages.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen…
To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen (w hJ doxa eijv tounwn jAmhn). This doxology is not introduced as merely a reverential closing up of the greeting, before the writer hastens on to the subsequent words of rebuke. It is rather an indignant tender of homage to the Most High, flashing forth from a loyal, filial heart; confronting and seeking, so far as it thus may, to redress the wrong done to "our God and Father" by the Judaizing spirit uprearing itself among the Galatians. It is similar in tone to the indignant doxology in Rom_1:25. This view of its origin explains the fact that, as connected with agreeting, such doxology is found only in this of all St. Paul"s Epistles. The indignation which pervades the tone of the whole passage favours the suppletion of estw rather than of ejstin. Perhaps, indeed estw is in general the more natural suppletion. in 1Pe_4:11, where ejstin is added by the writer, we have not so much a direct ascription of praise as an affirmation that to God belongs or is due the glory of our performing our several duties with reference to this end. In like manner in the (most probably interpolated) doxology at the close of the Lord"s prayer inxa Mat_6:13, "For thine is the kingdom," etc., the ascription of praise is not so much expressed as implied. Viewed in themselves, the words simply state the truth which constitutes the ground for our addressing to "our Father" our praises and our petitions. The article is most commonly prefixed to do in such ascriptions of praise, whether doxa stands alone, Rom_11:36 Rom_16:27; Eph_3:21; Php_4:20; 2Ti_4:18; Heb_13:21; 2Pe_3:18; or in conjunction with other nouns, as 1Pe_4:11; Rev_1:6 Rev_7:12. It is wanting Luk_2:14 Luk_19:38; 1Ti_1:17 Jud_1:25. When the article is added it marks the noun as expressing its notion viewed absolutely, in its entirety or universality: q.d. "Whatever glory is to be ascribed anywhere, be it ascribed to him." Thus hJ do) is equivalent to "all glory." For ever and ever; literally, into the aions of the aions; apparently a form of expression adopted to denote intensification,or superlativeness, like "holy of holies" (cf. Winer, "Gram. N. T.," 2). It is used where especial intensity is wished to be added to the notion of long undetermined duration; as Rev_14:11 Rev_15:7 Rev_22:5, etc. The same notion is expressed, only with not the same passionate earnestness, by the phrase, "into the aions," in Luk_1:33; Rom_1:25 Rom_9:5 Rom_11:36, etc.; and by "into the aion," in Mat_21:19; Joh_6:51, Joh_6:58, etc. Possiblythere is a reference of contrast to" this present aidn" of ver. 4. This, however, is doubtful; for in ver. 4 aion points to a particular condition of affairs subsisting in this aion rather than to a mere mode of duration, which latter is alone in view here. The like observation applies to Eph_2:2 compared with ver. 7.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 5. To whom be glory. This doxology is an…
5. To whom be glory. This doxology is an indirect rebuke to those who were exalting Moses to share the glory of Christ.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain to whom be the glory for ever and ever.…
to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. [The mention of the Lord Jesus Christ in the benediction, coupled with the thought which was uppermost in his mind, namely, that the Galatians were forsaking salvation through Jesus in the hope that they might obtain it through the law of Moses, leads Paul in these very opening sentences to fully set forth the atoning sacrifice of Christ, the deliverance through him, and the will of God, who ordered that atonement and deliverance should come in this way. Gratitude to Christ, who, owning his life, might have retained it, but freely gave it for us, and desire for deliverance from this present evil world, and respect for the sovereign will of God our Father, are three strong motives prompting us to be steadfast in the profession of our Christian faith. To each of these motives Paul appeals. It is the apostle's habit, whenever he has occasion to make mention of the mercy of God, to break forth in expressions of thanksgiving ( 2Co_9:15 ; Eph_3:20 ), and he follows his custom here.]
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 1:5 All glory must go to God for salvation,…
1:5 All glory must go to God for salvation, because it is his work alone.
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