Galatians 6:18

18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

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Galatians 6:18 in Other Translations

KJV

18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. [To the Galatians written from Rome.]

ESV

18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

NLT

18 Dear brothers and sisters, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

MSG

18 May what our Master Jesus Christ gives freely be deeply and personally yours, my friends. Oh, yes!

CSB

18 Brothers, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Galatians 6:18 Meaning and Commentary

Galatians 6:18

Brethren
So he calls them, to testify his affection for them, notwithstanding their infirmity and instability, and the roughness with which he had treated them; and to show his great humility and condescension in owning the relation, and putting them on a level with himself, which the pride of the false teachers would not suffer them to do.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit:
which is his concluding benediction and usual salutation and token in all his epistles: he wishes that more gifts of grace might be bestowed upon them; that the Gospel of the grace of God might be continued with them; that the love of Christ might be shed abroad in their hearts; that they might receive out of his fulness grace for grace; that there might be an increase of grace in their souls; that it might abound in them, and they grow in the exercise of it: he does not pray that the law of Moses, or the righteousness of works, but that the grace of Christ might be with them; not in the mere notion of it, but in the spiritual experience of it; that it might be in their hearts, and with their spirits, quickening, comforting, and strengthening them; making them more spiritual and evangelical in their frames and duties, and freeing them from a carnal and legal spirit: to all which he sets his

Amen;
signifying his desire that so it might be, and his faith that so it would be. The subscription of the letter follows,

unto the Galatians, written from Rome;
where perhaps he was then a prisoner; the Arabic version adds, "by Titus and Luke": who might be sent with it, but the subscriptions of the epistles are not to be depended on.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible