Murdock - Galatians

Chapter 1

1:1  PAUL, a legate, not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus the Messiah, and God his Father, who raised him from the dead;

1:2  and all the brethren who are with me; unto the churches which are in Galatia.

1:3  Grace be with you, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah;

1:4  who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this evil world, agreeably to the pleasure of God our Father:

1:5  to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1:6  I admire, how soon ye have turned from the Messiah, who called you by his grace, unto another gospel ;

1:7  which doth not exist, except as there are some who would disquiet you, and are disposed to pervert the gospel of the Messiah.

1:8  But if we, or an angel from heaven, should announce to you differently from what we have announced to you, let him be accursed.

1:9  As I have just said, and now I again say it, that if any one announce to you differently from what ye received, let him be accursed.

1:10  For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I had till now pleased men, I should not have been a servant of the Messiah.

1:11  But I make known to you, my brethren, that the gospel announced by me, was not from man.

1:12  For I did not receive it and learn it from man, but I had it by revelation from Jesus the Messiah.

1:13  For ye have heard of my former course of life in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God exceedingly, and destroyed it:

1:14  and that I went much farther in Judaism than many of my contemporaries who were of my nation, and was peculiarly zealous for the doctrine of my fathers.

1:15  But when it pleased him, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

1:16  to reveal his Son by me, that I should proclaim him among the Gentiles; forthwith, I did not open it to flesh and blood;

1:17  nor did I go to Jerusalem, to them who were legates before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus:

1:18  and after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Cephas; and I remained with him fifteen days.

1:19  But others of the legates I saw not, except James, our Lord's brother.

1:20  In the things which I am writing to you, behold, before God! I lie not.

1:21  And after that, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

1:22  And the churches in Judaea which were in the Messiah; did not know me personally:

1:23  but this only had they heard, that he who before persecuted us, now preacheth that faith which in time preceding he subverted:

1:24  and they glorified God in me.

Chapter 2

2:1  And again, after fourteen years, I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas; and I took with me Titus.

2:2  And I went up by revelation: and I explained to them the gospel which I announce among the Gentiles; and I stated it to them who were esteemed prominent, between myself and them: lest I should have run, or might run in vain.

2:3  Also Titus, who was with me, and was a Gentile, was not compelled to be circumcised.

2:4  And in regard to the false brethren, who had crept in to spy out the liberty we have in Jesus the Messiah, in order to bring me under subjection;

2:5  not for the space of an hour, did we throw ourselves into subjection to them; so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

2:6  And they who were esteemed prominent, (what they were, I care not; for God regardeth not the persons of men,)even these persons added nothing to me.

2:7  But, otherwise; for they saw, that the gospel of the uncircumcision was intrusted to me, as to Cephas was intrusted that of the circumcision.

2:8  For he that was operative with Cephas in the legateship of the circumcision, was also operative with me in the legateship of the Gentiles.

2:9  And James, Cephas, and John, who were accounted pillars, when they perceived the grace that was given to me, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we should labor among the Gentiles, and they among the circumcision.

2:10  Only they desired that we would be mindful of the needy; and I was solicitous to do the same.

2:11  But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I rebuked him to his face; because they were stumbled by him.

2:12  For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles: but when they came, he withdrew himself, and separated; because he was afraid of them of the circumcision.

2:13  And the rest of the Jews also were with him in this thing; insomuch that even Barnabas was induced to regard persons.

2:14  And when I saw, that they did not walk correctly, in the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas, before them all: If thou art a Jew, and livest in the Gentile way, and not in the Jewish, why dost thou compel the Gentiles to live in the Jewish way?

2:15  For if we, who are Jews by nature, and are not sinners of the Gentiles,

2:16  because we know that a man is not made just by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus the Messiah; even we have believed in Jesus the Messiah, in order to be made just by faith in the Messiah, and not by the works of the law: for, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is made just.

2:17  And if, while we seek to become just by the Messiah, we are found to be ourselves sinners, is Jesus the Messiah therefore the minister of sin? Far be it!

2:18  For if I should build up again the things I had demolished, I should show myself to be a transgressor of the precept.

2:19  For I, by the law, have become dead to the law, that I might live to God; and I am crucified with the Messiah.

2:20  And henceforth it is no more I who live, but the Messiah liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2:21  I do not spurn the grace of God. For if righteousness is by means of the law, the Messiah died in vain.

Chapter 3

3:1  O ye Galatians, deficient in understanding! Who hath fascinated you? For lo, Jesus the Messiah hath been portrayed as in a picture, crucified before your eyes.

3:2  This only would I learn from you, Was it by works of the law, that ye received the Spirit? or by the hearing of faith?

3:3  Are ye so foolish, that having begun in the Spirit, ye now would consummate in the flesh?

3:4  And have ye borne all these things in vain? And I would, it were in vain!

3:5  He therefore who giveth the Spirit in you, and who worketh miracles among you, doth he these things by the deeds of the law? or by the hearing of faith?

3:6  In like manner Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

3:7  Know ye, therefore, that those who are of faith, they are the children of Abraham.

3:8  For, because God knew beforehand that the Gentiles would be made just by faith, he preannounced it to Abraham; as saith the holy scripture, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

3:9  Believers, therefore, it is, who are blessed with believing Abraham.

3:10  For they who are of the deeds of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who shall not do every thing written in this law.

3:11  And that no one becometh just before God, by the law, is manifest: because it is written, The just by faith, shall live.

3:12  Now the law is not of faith; but, whoever shall do the things written in it, shall live by them.

3:13  But the Messiah hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, and hath been a curse for us; (for it is written, Cursed is everyone that is hanged on a tree;)

3:14  that the blessing of Abraham might be on the Gentiles, through Jesus the Messiah; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

3:15  My brethren, I speak as among men; a man's covenant which is confirmed, no one setteth aside, or changeth any thing in it.

3:16  Now to Abraham was the promise made, and to his seed. And it said to him, not, to thy seeds, as being many; but to thy seed, as being one, which is the Messiah.

3:17  And this I say: That the covenant which was previously confirmed by God in the Messiah, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot set it aside, and nullify the promise.

3:18  And if the inheritance were by the law, it would not be by promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

3:19  What then is the law? It was added on account of transgression, until that seed should come, to whom belonged the promise: and the law was given by angels through a mediator.

3:20  Now a mediator is not of one; but God is one.

3:21  Is the law then opposed to the promise of God? Far be it. For if a law had been given, which could make alive, certainly, righteousness would have been by the law.

3:22  But the scripture hath inclosed all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus the Messiah might be given to them that believe.

3:23  But before the faith came, the law kept us shut up unto the faith that was to be revealed.

3:24  The law, therefore, was a monitor for us unto the Messiah, that we might become just by faith.

3:25  But the faith having come, we are not under the monitor.

3:26  For ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus the Messiah.

3:27  For they who have been baptized into the Messiah, have put on the Messiah.

3:28  There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free-born, neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Jesus the Messiah.

3:29  And if ye are the Messiah's, then are ye the seed of Abraham, and heirs by the promise.

Chapter 4

4:1  But I say, that the heir, so long as he is a child, differeth not from a servant, although he is lord of all;

4:2  but he is under supervisors and stewards, until the time established by his father.

4:3  So also we, while we were children, were in subordination under the elements of the world.

4:4  But when the consummation of the time arrived, God sent forth his Son; and he was from a woman, and was under the law;

4:5  that he might redeem them that were under the law; and that we might receive the adoption of sons.

4:6  And, because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, who crieth, Father, our Father.

4:7  Wherefore, ye are no longer servants, but sons; and if sons, then heirs of God; through Jesus the Messiah.

4:8  For then, when ye knew not God, ye served them who in their nature are not gods.

4:9  But now, since ye have known God, or rather, have been known by God, ye turn yourselves again to the weak and beggarly elements, and wish again to be under them!

4:10  Ye observe days and moons, and set times, and years!

4:11  I am afraid, lest I have labored among you in vain.

4:12  Be ye like me; because I have been like you.

4:13  My brethren, I beseech you. Ye have not injured me at all. For ye know, that under the infirmity of my flesh, I at first announced the gospel to you;

4:14  and the trial in my flesh, ye did not despise nor nauseate: but ye received me as an angel of God, and as Jesus the Messiah.

4:15  Where then is your blessedness? For I testify of you, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.

4:16  Have I become an enemy to you, by preaching to you the truth?

4:17  They are zealous towards you, yet not for good; but they wish to shut you up, that ye may be zealous towards them.

4:18  And it is a good thing to be zealous at all times in good things; and not merely when I am present with you.

4:19  Ye are my children, of whom I travail in birth again, till the Messiah be formed in you.

4:20  And I could wish to be now with you, and to change the tone of my voice; because I am astonished at you.

4:21  Tell me, ye who desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

4:22  For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondmaid, and one by the free woman.

4:23  But he that was by the bond maid, was born after the flesh; and he that was by the free woman, was by the promise.

4:24  And these are allegorical of the two covenants; the one from mount Sinai, which bringeth forth for bondage, is Hagar.

4:25  For Hagar is the mount Sinai in Arabia, and correspondeth with the present Jerusalem, and is serving in bondage, she and her children.

4:26  But the Jerusalem above, is the free woman, who is the mother of us.

4:27  For it is written, Be joyful, thou barren, who bearest not: exult and shout, thou who hast not travailed: for more numerous are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman.

4:28  Now we, my brethren, like Isaac, are the children of the promise.

4:29  And as then, he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him who was born of the Spirit; so also is it now.

4:30  But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondmaid, and her son; because the son of the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.

4:31  So then, my brethren, we are not sons of the bond-woman, but sons of the free woman.

Chapter 5

5:1  Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty with which the Messiah hath made us free; and be not subjected again to the yoke of bondage.

5:2  Behold, I Paul say to you, That if ye become circumcised, the Messiah is of no advantage to you.

5:3  And again, I testify to every one who becometh circumcised, that he is bound to fulfill the whole law.

5:4  Ye have renounced the Messiah, ye who seek justification by the law: and ye have apostatized from grace.

5:5  For we, through the Spirit, which is from faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

5:6  For, in the Messiah Jesus, circumcision is nothing, neither is uncircumcision, but the faith that is perfected by love.

5:7  Ye did run well: who hath interrupted you, that ye acquiesce not in the truth?

5:8  The bias of your mind is not from him who called you.

5:9  A little leaven leaveneth the whole mass.

5:10  I confide in you through our Lord, that ye will entertain no other thoughts. And he that disquieteth you, shall bear his judgment, whoever he may be.

5:11  And I, my brethren, if I still preached circumcision, why should I suffer persecution? Hath the offensiveness of the cross ceased?

5:12  But I would, that they who disquiet you, were actually cut off.

5:13  And ye, my brethren, have been called into liberty: only let not your liberty be an occasion to the flesh; but, by love, be ye servants to each other.

5:14  For the whole law is fulfilled in one sentence; in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

5:15  But if ye bite and devour one another, beware, lest ye be consumed one by another.

5:16  And I say: Walk ye in the Spirit; and never follow the cravings of the flesh.

5:17  For the flesh craveth that which is repugnant to the Spirit; and the Spirit craveth that which is repugnant to the flesh: and the two are the opposites of each other, so that ye do not that which ye desire.

5:18  But if ye are guided by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

5:19  For the works of the flesh are known, which are whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness,

5:20  idol-worship, magic, malice, contention, rivalry, wrath, strife, divisions, discords,

5:21  envy, murder, drunkenness, revelling, and all the like things. And they who perpetrate these things, as I have before told you, and also now tell you, do not inherit the kingdom of God.

5:22  But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, long suffering, suavity, kindness, fidelity, modesty, patience.

5:23  Against these there standeth no law.

5:24  And they who are of the Messiah, have crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its cravings.

5:25  Let us therefore live in the Spirit; and let us press on after the Spirit.

5:26  And let us not be vain-glorious, despising one another, and envying one another.

Chapter 6

6:1  My brethren, if one of you should be overtaken in a fault, do ye who are of the Spirit recover him, in a spirit of meekness: and be ye cautious, lest ye also be tempted.

6:2  And bear ye one another's burdens, that so ye may fulfill the law of the Messiah.

6:3  For if any one thinketh himself to be something, when he is not, he deceiveth himself.

6:4  But let a man examine his own conduct; and then his glorying will be within himself, and not in others.

6:5  For every man must take up his own load.

6:6  And let him that heareth the word, communicate to him who instructeth him, in all good things.

6:7  Do not mistake; God is not deceived; for what a man soweth, that also will he reap.

6:8  He who soweth in the flesh, reapeth from the flesh corruption: and he who soweth in the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap life everlasting.

6:9  And while we do what is good, let it not be wearisome to us; for the time will come when we shall reap, and it will not be tedious to us.

6:10  Now, therefore, while we have the opportunity, let us practice good works towards all men, and especially towards them of the household of faith.

6:11  Behold, this epistle have I written to you with my own hand.

6:12  They who are disposed to glory in the flesh, they urge you to become circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted on account of the cross of the Messiah.

6:13  For not even they themselves, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to become circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

6:14  But as for me, let me not glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

6:15  For circumcision is nothing; neither is uncircumcision; but a new creation.

6:16  And they who press forward in this path, peace be on them, and mercy; and on the Israel of God.

6:17  Henceforth let no one put trouble upon me; for I bear in my body the marks of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

6:18  My brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, be with your spirit. Amen.