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Chapter 1
Gala LO 1:1  Paul, an Apostle, not from men, neither by man; but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father who raised him from the dead;
Gala LO 1:2  and all the brethren who are with me, to the congregations of Galatia:
Gala LO 1:3  Favor to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Gala LO 1:4  who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
Gala LO 1:5  to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Gala LO 1:6  I wonder that you are so soon removed from him who called you into the favor of Christ, to another gospel;
Gala LO 1:7  which is not another: but there are some who trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Gala LO 1:8  But if even we, or an angel from heaven, declare a gospel to you, different from what we have declared to you, let him be accursed.
Gala LO 1:9  As we said before, so now I say again, if any one declare a gospel to you, different from what you have received, let him be accursed.
Gala LO 1:10  For do I now conciliate men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Gala LO 1:11  Now I certify you, brethren, concerning the gospel which was declared by me, that it is not according to men.
Gala LO 1:12  For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, except by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Gala LO 1:13  You have certainly heard of my behavior formerly in Judaism; that I exceedingly persecuted the congregation of God, and laid it waste;
Gala LO 1:14  and made progress in Judaism above many of the same age with myself, in my own nation, being more exceedingly jealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Gala LO 1:15  But when God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his favor, was pleased
Gala LO 1:16  to reveal his Son to me, that I might declare the good news concerning him to the Gentiles; immediately I did not consult flesh and blood:
Gala LO 1:17  neither did I go up to Jerusalem, to them who were Apostles before me; but I went away in Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.
Gala LO 1:18  Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem, to become acquainted with Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
Gala LO 1:19  But I saw no other of the Apostles, except James, the Lord's brother.
Gala LO 1:20  Now as to the things which I write to you, behold, God is my witness that I do not falsely affirm.
Gala LO 1:21  After that, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
Gala LO 1:22  and I was personally unknown to the congregations of Judea which are in Christ.
Gala LO 1:23  They had only heard that--he who formerly persecuted us, now announces, as glad tidings, the faith which he formerly destroyed.
Chapter 2
Gala LO 2:1  Then, fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas; taking Titus with me also.
Gala LO 2:2  And I went up by revelation; and communicated to them the gospel which I proclaimed to the Gentiles; but privately to them who were of reputation; lest, perhaps, I should run, or had run in vain.
Gala LO 2:3  However, neither Titus, who was with me, though a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised,
Gala LO 2:4  even on account of the false brethren secretly introduced; (who came in privily to spy out our liberty, which we have by Jesus Christ, that they might bring us into bondage;)
Gala LO 2:5  nor did we give place to them by submission, not even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.
Gala LO 2:6  Besides, from them who were of reputation, I received nothing ; (whatever they were formerly, is no matter to me: God respects not a man's appearance. For they who were of reputation, communicated nothing to me.)
Gala LO 2:7  But, on the contrary, perceiving that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, just as Peter was with that of the circumcision;
Gala LO 2:8  (for he who wrought effectually in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision, also wrought effectually in me for the Gentiles):
Gala LO 2:9  even James, and Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, having perceived the favor granted to me, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we, indeed, should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;
Gala LO 2:10  requesting only, that we would remember the poor, which very thing I had also been diligent to do.
Gala LO 2:11  Moreover, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed.
Gala LO 2:12  For, before certain persons came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew, and separated himself, being afraid of them of the circumcision.
Gala LO 2:13  And the other Jews also dissembled with them, insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.
Gala LO 2:14  But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter, before them all--If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not after the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to Judaize?
Gala LO 2:15  We, who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Gala LO 2:16  knowing that man is not justified by works of law, but only through the faith of Jesus Christ; even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law; for by works of law no flesh shall be justified.
Gala LO 2:17  But if seeking to be justified by Christ, even we ourselves are found sinners, is Christ, then, the minister of sin? By no means.
Gala LO 2:18  For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I constitute myself a transgressor.
Gala LO 2:19  Besides, I, through law, have died to law, that I might live to God.
Gala LO 2:20  I am crucified together with Christ. Nevertheless, I live; yet not longer I, but Christ lives in me: for the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith which is of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Gala LO 2:21  I do not set aside the favor of God. For if righteousness is through law, then certainly Christ has died in vain.
Chapter 3
Gala LO 3:1  O inconsiderate Galatians! who has deceived you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ crucified, was evidently represented among you?
Gala LO 3:2  This, only, I wish to learn from you, did you receive the Spirit by works of law, or by obedience of faith?
Gala LO 3:3  Are you so inconsiderate that, having begun in Spirit, you are now made perfect in flesh?
Gala LO 3:4  Have you suffered so many things in vain? if, indeed, it is in vain?
Gala LO 3:5  He, then, who ministered to you the Spirit, and wrought miracles among you, did he these by works of law, or by a hearing of faith?
Gala LO 3:6  even as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness;
Gala LO 3:7  know, therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.
Gala LO 3:8  For the scripture, foreshowing that God would justify the nations by faith, formerly announced the gospel to Abraham, saying , "Surely in you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gala LO 3:9  Wherefore, they who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Gala LO 3:10  But as many as are of works of law, are under the curse: for it is written, "Accursed is every one who continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
Gala LO 3:11  Besides, that by law no one is justified before God is manifest: "For the just by faith shall live."
Gala LO 3:12  Now, the law is not of faith; but he who does these things, shall live by them.
Gala LO 3:13  Christ has bought us off from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: (for it is written, "Accursed is every one who is hanged on a tree":)
Gala LO 3:14  that the blessing of Abraham might come on the nations through Christ Jesus; and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Gala LO 3:15  Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: no one sets aside, or alters a man's Will, after it is ratified.
Gala LO 3:16  Now, to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He does not say, "And in seeds," as concerning many; but as concerning one person, "And in your see," who is Christ.
Gala LO 3:17  Wherefore, this I affirm, that the Will which was before ratified by God concerning Christ, the law, which was made four hundred and thirty years after can not annul, so as to abolish the promise.
Gala LO 3:18  Besides, if the inheritance be by law, it is no longer by promise. But God bestowed it freely on Abraham by promise.
Gala LO 3:19  Why, then, the law? It was added on account of transgression, till the seed should come to whom it was promised; being ordained by messengers, in the hand of a Mediator;
Gala LO 3:20  and the Mediator is not one party ; but God is one party .
Gala LO 3:21  Is the law, then, contrary to the promise of God? By no means. For if there had been a law given, which was able to make alive, certainly righteousness would have been by law.
Gala LO 3:22  But the scripture has shut up together all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Gala LO 3:23  Wherefore, before faith came, we were kept in durance under law, shut up together to the faith, which should afterward be revealed.
Gala LO 3:24  So that the law has become our instructor to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gala LO 3:25  But faith being come, we are no longer under this instructor.
Gala LO 3:26  For you are all the sons of God through the faith by Christ Jesus.
Gala LO 3:27  Besides, as many of you have been immersed into Christ, have put on Christ.
Gala LO 3:28  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondman nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gala LO 3:29  And if you are Christ's, certainly you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Chapter 4
Gala LO 4:1  Now, I say, as long as the heir is a minor, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all.
Gala LO 4:2  For he is under tutors and stewards, until the time before appointed by his father.
Gala LO 4:3  So, also, we, whilst we were minors, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
Gala LO 4:4  But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Gala LO 4:5  that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Gala LO 4:6  And because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Gala LO 4:7  So that you are no more a bondman, but a son, and if a son, then heir of God through Christ.
Gala LO 4:8  But formerly indeed, when you knew not God, you served those, who by nature were not gods.
Gala LO 4:9  But now, having acknowledged God, (or rather, being acknowledged by God,) why do you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which again, a second time, you incline to be in bondage?
Gala LO 4:10  You carefully observe days and moons, and seasons and years.
Gala LO 4:11  I am afraid of you, lest perhaps, I have labored in vain among you.
Gala LO 4:12  Brethren, I pray you, be as I am: for I am you are. You have injured me in nothing.
Gala LO 4:13  You know, indeed, that in weakness of the flesh, I declared the gospel to you at first.
Gala LO 4:14  Yet that trial of mine, which was in my flesh, you did not despise; neither did you reject me, but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Gala LO 4:15  What, then, was your happiness! for I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes, and given them to me.
Gala LO 4:16  Am I, then, become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Gala LO 4:17  They love you ardently, not honorably. Yes, they wish to exclude us, that you may love them ardently.
Gala LO 4:18  But it is honorable to be ardently in love with a good man at all times, and not merely when I am present with you.
Gala LO 4:19  My little children, for whom I travail in birth again till Christ be formed in you;
Gala LO 4:20  I could wish, indeed, to be present with you now, and to change my speech; for I am exceedingly in doubt concerning you.
Gala LO 4:21  Tell me, you who wish to be under the law, do you hear the law?
Gala LO 4:22  For it is written, that Abraham had two sons: one by the bondmaid, and one by the free woman.
Gala LO 4:23  But he, indeed, who was of the bondmaid, was begotten according to the flesh; but he who was of the free woman, was through the promise.
Gala LO 4:24  Which things are allegorized: for these women are two institutions; the one, indeed, from Mount Sinai, bringing forth children into bondage, which is Hagar,
Gala LO 4:25  (for the name of Hagar denotes Mount Sinai, in Arabia,) and she answers to the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.
Gala LO 4:26  But the Jerusalem above, is the free woman, who is our mother.
Gala LO 4:27  For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren woman, who didst not bring forth! Break out and cry, thou who travailest not in birth; for more are the children of the deserted, than of her who had the husband."
Gala LO 4:28  We, therefore, brethren, like Isaac, are children by promise.
Gala LO 4:29  But even as then, he who was begotten according to the flesh, persecuted him who was begotten according to the Spirit: so also now.
Gala LO 4:30  But what says the scripture? "Cast out the bondmaid and her son; for the son of the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."
Gala LO 4:31  Well, then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondmaid, but of the free woman.
Chapter 5
Gala LO 5:1  Stand fast, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has freed us, and be not again held fast in the yoke of bondage.
Gala LO 5:2  Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Gala LO 5:3  And I testify, moreover, to every circumcised person, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Gala LO 5:4  You are loosed from Christ, who are justified by the law; you have fallen from favor.
Gala LO 5:5  But we, through the Spirit, look for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Gala LO 5:6  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith, which works by love.
Gala LO 5:7  You did run well: who has hindered you from obeying the truth?
Gala LO 5:8  This persuasion comes not from him who called you.
Gala LO 5:10  I am persuaded concerning you, by the Lord, that you will think nothing differently from me: but he who troubles you shall bear the punishment, whosoever he be.
Gala LO 5:11  But I, brethren, if I now proclaim circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Certainly the offense of the cross is abolished.
Gala LO 5:12  I wish, indeed, they were cut off who subvert you.
Gala LO 5:13  For you, brethren, have been called into liberty; only use not this liberty for an occasion to the flesh; but through love, assiduously serve one another.
Gala LO 5:14  For the whole law is fulfilled by one precept, even by this, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Gala LO 5:15  But if you bite and devour one another, take care lest you be consumed by one another.
Gala LO 5:16  I say, then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Gala LO 5:17  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things you would.
Gala LO 5:18  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
Gala LO 5:19  Now, the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these. Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gala LO 5:20  sorcery, enmities, strifes, emulations, wraths, brawlings, factions, sects,
Gala LO 5:21  envying, murders, intoxications, revelings, and such like: concerning which I foretell you now, as I also have foretold, that they who practice these things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gala LO 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, fidelity,
Gala LO 5:23  meekness, temperance: against such things there is no law.
Gala LO 5:24  Besides, they who are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts.
Gala LO 5:25  Since we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Gala LO 5:26  Let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
Chapter 6
Gala LO 6:1  Also, brethren, if a man be surprised into any fault, you, the spiritual men, set such a one right again in the spirit of meekness; taking a view of yourself, lest even you be tempted.
Gala LO 6:2  Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Gala LO 6:3  For if any one think himself to be something, being nothing he deceives himself.
Gala LO 6:4  But let every one try his own work, and then he shall have boasting in himself alone, and not in another.
Gala LO 6:6  Now let him, who is instructed in the word, communicate of all good things to the instructor.
Gala LO 6:7  Do not deceive yourselves; God is not mocked: for whatever a man shows, that also he shall reap.
Gala LO 6:8  Therefore, he who sows to his flesh, shall from the flesh reap corruption: but he who sows to his spirit, shall from the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Gala LO 6:9  Wherefore, let us not flag in well doing; for in the proper season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Gala LO 6:10  Well, then, while we have opportunity let us do good to all: but especially to them, who are of the household of faith.
Gala LO 6:11  You see how large a letter, I have written to you with my own hand.
Gala LO 6:12  As many as wish to appear fair by the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Gala LO 6:13  For not even do the circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
Gala LO 6:14  But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Gala LO 6:15  For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but a new creature.
Gala LO 6:16  Now as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and on the Israel of God.
Gala LO 6:17  Henceforth let no one give me trouble, for I bear the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body.
Gala LO 6:18  The favor of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.