Galatians

2^CThen fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

^2C And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

^3C But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:

^4C And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

^5C To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

^6C But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:

^7C But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

^8C (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)

^9C And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

¹⁰ Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

^11C But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

^12C For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

^13C And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

^14C But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

^15C We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

^16C Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

^17C But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

^18C For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

^19C For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

^20C I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

^21C I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

3^CO foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

² This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

^3C Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

⁴ Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

^5C He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

^6C Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

^7C Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

^8C And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

⁹ So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

^10C For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

^11C But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

^12C And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

^13C 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:

^14C That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

^15C Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

^16C Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

^17C And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

^18C For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

^19C Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

^20C Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

^21C Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

^22C But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

^23C But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

^24C Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

^25C But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

^26C For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

^27C For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

^28C There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

^29C And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

4^CNow I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

^2C But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

^3C Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

^4C But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

^5C To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

^6C And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

⁷ Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

⁸ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

^9C But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

^10C Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

^11C I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

¹² Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

^13C Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

¹⁴ And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

^15C Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

¹⁶ Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

¹⁷ They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

¹⁸ But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

^19C My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

^20C I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

^21C Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

^22C For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

^23C But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

^24C Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

^25C For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

^26C But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

^27C For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

^28C Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

^29C But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

^30C Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

^31C So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

5^CStand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

^2C Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

^3C For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

^4C Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

⁵ For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

^6C For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

^7C Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

^8C This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

^9C A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

^10C I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

^11C And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

^12C I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

^13C For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

^14C For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

^15C But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

^16C This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

^17C For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

^18C But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

^19C Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

^20C Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

^21C Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

^22C But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

^23C Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

^24C And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

^25C If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

^26C Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

6^CBrethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

^2C Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

^3C For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

^4C But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

^5C For every man shall bear his own burden.

^6C Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.

^7C Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

^8C For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

^9C And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

^10C As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

^11C Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

^12C As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

¹³ For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

^14C But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

^15C For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

^16C And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

^17C From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

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