Galatians 3:13 BSB — MannaFest

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

BSB

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ASV

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

KJV

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

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Commentary

6 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book III (202)

And everywhere, when [referring to] the passion of our Lord, and to His human nature, and His subjection to death, he employs the name of Christ, as in that passage: "Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died." And again: "But now, in Christ, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." And again: "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,.... The Redeemer is Christ, the Son of God; who was appointed and called to this work by his Father, and which he himself agreed to; he was spoken of in prophecy under this character; he came as such, and has obtained eternal redemption, for which he was abundantly qualified; as man, he was a near kinsman, to whom the right of redemption belonged; and as God, he was able to accomplish it.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Christ hath redeemed us - The word used here ἐξηγόρασεν exēgorasen is not that which is usually employed in the New Testament to denote redemption. That word is λυτρόω lutroō. The difference between them mainly is, that the word used here more usually relates to a purchase of any kind; the other is used strictly with reference to a ransom. The word used here is more general in its meaning; the other is strictly appropriated to a ransom. This distinction is not observable here, however, and the word used here is employed in the proper sense of redeem.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Modern Voices2 voices

Derek Prince

1915–2003

Redeemed from the Curse (devotional)

In order to redeem us from the curse of the law, Christ became a curse for us. This was demonstrated visibly when He hung on the cross.

J.I. Packer

1926–2020

What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Penal Substitution (1974)

The curse is the divine condemnation of sin which leads to death. To this curse we lay exposed; but Christ on his cross identified himself with the doom impending on sinners that, through his act, the curse passes away and we go free.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Χριστὸς	Christos	Christ	G5547 →
ἡμᾶς	hēmas	us	G3165 →
ἐξηγόρασεν	exēgorasen	redeemed	G1805 →
ἐκ	ek	from	G1537 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
κατάρας	kataras	curse	G2671 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
νόμου	nomou	Law	G3551 →
γενόμενος	genomenos	having become	G1096 →
ὑπὲρ	huper	for	G5228 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	us	G3165 →
κατάρα·	katara	a curse;	G2671 →
ὅτι	hoti	since	G3754 →
γέγραπται	gegraptai	it has been written	G1125 →
ἐπικατάρατος	epikataratos	Cursed [is]	G1944 →
πᾶς	pas	everyone	G3956 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
κρεμάμενος	kremamenos	is hanging	G2910 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
ξύλου·	xulou	a tree;	G3586 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 2:24
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
leads to
- Isaiah 53:4–6
  Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
- Matthew 8:17
  This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took on our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
- Romans 6:11
  So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
- Revelation 22:2
  down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month.…
- 1 John 2:29
  If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
Through
Hebrews 9:12
He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
leads to
- Hebrews 10:4
  because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Through
Hebrews 9:15
Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under…
leads to
- Romans 3:24–26
  and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 8:30
  And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

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About Galatians

The Crucifixion — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)

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Redemption
redemption from the law's curse accomplished by Christ becoming a curse in the redeemed's place

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Galatians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Galatians