1 Scroll 38 Epistle to the Galatians.
Paul, an apostle, (not from men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ,
and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead);
2 and all the brethren who are with me, to the Churches of Galatia.
3 Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil Age[World], according to the will of God and our Father:
5 to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen!
6 I marvel that ye are so quickly removed from Him who having called you in the grace of Christ, to another Gospel:
7 which is not another; except there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an Angel from Heaven, should preach any other Gospel to you than that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema[accursed].
9 As we have said you before, so I say now again, If anyone preaches any other Gospel to you than that ye received, let him be anathema[accursed].
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men?
For if I yet pleased men, I was not the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.
12 For I neither received it from man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For ye have heard of my behaviour in time past in Judaism, that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God, and extinguished her;
14 and profited in Judaism above many my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when God was pleased, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace,
16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
17 neither did I go to Jerusalem to them who were apostles before me: but I went into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
19 But I saw no other of the apostles, except James the Lord's brother.
20 Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.
21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
22 and was being unknown by face to the Churches of Judea which were in Christ:
23 but they were only hearing, That he who persecuting us in past times, now preaches the Gospel, the faith which he once extinguished.
24 And they glorified God in me.
1 Then after fourteen years, I go up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, and took with me also Titus.
2 And I went by revelation, and communicated to them that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles,
but privately to them who were of reputation, lest I should run, or did run in vain.
3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek[Gentile], was compelled to be circumcised.
4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in,
who came in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.
5 To whom we yielded by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.
6 but of these, who seemed to be somewhat, (whatever they were, it makes no matter to me:
God accepts no one's person): for they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me:
7 but on the contrary, they having seen that I have been entrusted with the Gospel of uncircumcision, as Peter of circumcision;
8 (for he who wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, also wrought in me towards the Gentiles).
9 And they having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars,
they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was diligent to do.
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But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12 For before that certain came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles:
but when they came, he was withdrawing and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision.
13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; so that Barnabas also was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter before them all,
If Thou, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel Thou the Gentiles to live as Jews?
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We are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16 knowing that a man is not justified by works of Law,
but by faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus,
that we may be justified by faith of Christ, and not by works of Law:
because by works of Law shall no flesh be justified.
17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners,
is Christ then the minister of sin?
Let it not be.
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19 For I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I may live to God.
20 I have been crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me:
and the life which I now live in flesh,
I live in faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
21 I do not reject the grace of God: for if righteousness is attainable by the Law, then Christ has died for naught.
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O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that ye not to be obeyed the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ was among you be described as having been crucified?
2 This only I would to learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by works of Law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 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? It is if indeed also in vain.
5 He therefore that supplying to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you,
does he this by works of Law, or by the hearing of faith?
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. Gen 15:6
7 Know ye therefore, that they who are of faith, these are the children of Abraham.
8 And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, preached before the Gospel to Abraham,
saying, In Thee shall all nations be blessed. Gen 22:18
9 So then they who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are by works of Law, are under the curse: for it has been written,
Cursed be all that continues not in all things which has been written in the Book of the Law to do them! Deu 27:26
11 But that no one is justified by the Law in the sight of GOD, is evident: for, The just shall live by faith; Hab 2:4
12 and the Law is not of faith: but, the man who doing these things shall live by them. Lev 18:5
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us: for it has been written,
every one who hanging on a tree: is accursed. Deu 21:23
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles in Jesus Christ;
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.
15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; yet a man's Covenant,
having been confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made.
He says not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to Thy seed, which is Christ. Gen 12:7
17 And this I say, that the Covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, the Law,
having come four hundred thirty years after, cannot annul, that it should nullify the promise.
18 For if the inheritance is by the Law, it is no more by promise: but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
19 Why then serves the Law? It was added because of transgressions,
until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made; and it was ordained by Angels in the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of One; but God is One.
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Is the Law then against the promises of God?
Let it not be:
for if there a Law was given which could to vivify, indeed righteousness was by the Law.
22 But the Scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believing.
23 But before faith came, we were guarded under the Law, shut up to the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Therefore the Law has become our instructor to Christ, that we may be justified by faith.
25 But after faith is come, we are no longer under an instructor.
26 For ye are all Children of GOD by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many as were baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek[Gentile], there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 But if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he being lord of all;
2 but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the World:
4 but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, having become born of a woman, having become born under the Law, Gen 3:15 Act 3:26 Rev 12:4-5
5 to redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption.
6 And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Therefore Thou are no more a slave, but a son; but if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
8 But then indeed, ye not knowing God, ye did service to them which by nature being no gods.
9 But now, after ye have known God, or rather are known by God,
how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage?
10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest in vain upon you, I have laboured.
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Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am also as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
13 Ye have known that in infirmity of the flesh I preached the Gospel to you at the first.
14 And my trial which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an Angel of GOD, even as Christ Jesus.
15 What then was your blessedness? For I bear you testimony,
that if possible, your eyes having plucked out and given them to me.
16 Therefore I have become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, but not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may zealous to them.
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only in me to be present with you.
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My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desired to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the Law, do ye not hear the Law?
22 For it has been written, that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bondmaid and one by the free-woman.
23 But he who was of the bondmaid, has been born according to the flesh; but he of the free-woman was through the promise.
24 Which things are being allegorized: for these are the two Covenants;
the one from the Mount Sinai, which engenders to bondage, which is Hagar.
25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it has been written,
Rejoice, Thou barren that bears not;
break forth and cry, Thou that travail not:
for the desolate has many more children,
than she who has a husband. Isa 54:1
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he who having been born according to the flesh persecuted him,
that was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 But what says the Scripture? Cast out the bondmaid and her son:
for the son of the bondmaid may not be heir with the son of the free-woman. Gen 21:10
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondmaid, but of the free.
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that being circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole Law.
4 To you is the Christ[Messiah] become nullified,
whoever of you are justified by the Law; ye have fallen from grace.
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith by love working.
7 Ye did run well, who hindered you that ye not to be obeyed the truth?
8 This persuasion comes not from Him who calling you.
9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
10 I have confidence in you by the Lord, that ye will be no otherwise minded:
but he who troubling you shall bear the Judgment, whoever he may be.
11 But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I still persecuted?
Then the offence of the cross has been ceased.
12 I would they were even cut off who trouble you.
13 For, brethren, ye have been called to liberty;
only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this,
Thou shall love Thy neighbour as thyself. Lev 19:18
15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one by another.
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye should not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh:
and these are contrary to one another; so that ye might not do these things that ye may will.
18 But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the Law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these,
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, variance, rivalry, wrath, strife, divisions, heresies,
21 envies, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like:
of which I forewarned, as I have also told you in time past,
that they who doing such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, endurance, kindness, goodness, faith,
23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no Law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, we also should walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
1 Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, ye who are spiritual,
restore such one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest Thou also be tempted.
2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the Law of Christ.
3 For if any think to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.
4 But let every man prove his own work, and then he shall have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
5 For every man shall bear his own burden of conscience.
6 Let him that being taught in the Word share to him that teaches in all good things.
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man may sows, that shall he also reap.
8 For he who sowing to his flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption:
but he who sowing to the Spirit, shall from the Spirit reap everlasting life.
9 And let us not be weary in doing good: for in our due time we shall reap, we not fainting.
10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to them who are of the household of the faith.
11 Ye see how large letters I wrote to you with my own hand.
12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised;
only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
13 For neither they themselves who are being circumcised keep the Law;
but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
14 But let it not be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom the World has been crucified to me, and I to the World.
15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
16 And as many as shall walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
17 Henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
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Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen!