THE Entire Epistle of Paul to the Galatians;
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Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
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Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
Ch. 1 Gal.
1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men,
neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and
God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
1:2 and all the brethren which are
with me, unto the churches of
Galatia:
1:3 Grace be to you, and peace, from
God the Father, and from our Lord,
Jesus Christ,
1:4 Who gave himself for our sins,
that he might deliver us from this
present evil world,
according to the will of God,
and our Father:
1:5 To whom be glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
1:6 I marvel, that ye are so soon removed
from him that called you into
the grace of Christ,
unto another gospel:
1:7 Which is not another;
but there be some that trouble you,
and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
1:8 But though we, or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel
unto you, than that which we have
preached unto you,
let him be accursed.
1:9 As we said before,
so say I now, again,
if any man preach any other gospel
unto you, than that ye have 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 yet pleased men,
I should not be the servant of Christ.
1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the
gospel which was preached of me,
is not after man.
1:12 For I neither received it of man,
neither was I taught it, but by the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:13 For ye have heard of my
conversation in time past
in the Jews' religion,
how, that beyond measure,
I persecuted the church of God, and
wasted it:
1:14 and profited in the
Jews' religion,
above many my equals in mine own
nation,
being more exceedingly zealous of the
traditions of my fathers.
1:15 But when it pleased God,
who separated me from my mother's
womb, and called me, by his grace,
1:16 to reveal his Son in me,
that I might preach him among the
heathen;
immediately, I conferred not with
flesh and blood:
1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem,
to them which were apostles before
me; but I went into Arabia,
and returned again, unto Damascus.
1:18 Then, after three years,
I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter,
and abode with him, fifteen days.
1:19 But other of the apostles
saw I none, save James,
the Lord's brother.
1:20 Now the things which I write
unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
1:21 Afterwards, I came into the regions of
Syria and Cilicia;
1:22 and was unknown by face,
unto the churches of Judea,
which were in Christ:
1:23 But they had heard only, that he
which persecuted us in times past,
now preacheth the faith,
which once he destroyed.
1:24 And they glorified God, in me.
Ch. 2 Gal.
2:1 Then fourteen years after,
I went up again to Jerusalem with
Barnabas,
and took Titus with me also.
2:2 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.
2:3 But neither Titus,
who was with me,
being a Greek, was compelled to
be circumcised:
2:4 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:
2:5 To whom we gave place,
by subjection, no, not for an hour;
that the truth of the gospel might
continue with you.
2:6 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:
2:7 But contrariwise,
when they saw that the
gospel of the un-circumcision was
committed unto me,
as the gospel of the circumcision
was unto Peter;
2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in
Peter to the apostleship of the
circumcision,
the same was mighty in me
toward the Gentiles:)
2:9 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.
2:10 Only they would,
that we should remember the poor;
the same which I also,
was forward to do.
2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch,
I withstood him to the face,
because he was to be blamed.
2:12 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.
2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise,
with him; insomuch that
Barnabas, also, was carried away with
their dissimulation.
2:14 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?
2:15 We, who are Jews by nature, and
not sinners of the Gentiles,
2:16 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.
2:17 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.
2:18 For if I build again the
things which I destroyed,
I make myself a transgressor.
2:19 For I, through the law,
am dead to the law,
that I might live unto God.
2:20 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.
2:21 I do not frustrate the
grace of God:
For if righteousness come by the law,
then Christ is dead in vain.
Ch. 3 Gal.
3:1 O 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?
3:2 This only would I learn of you,
Received ye the Spirit by the works
of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
3:3 Are ye so foolish?
Having begun in the Spirit,
are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain?
if it be yet in vain.
3:5 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?
3:6 Even as Abraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.
3:7 Know ye, therefore,
that they which are of faith,
the same, are the
children of Abraham.
3:8 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.
3:9 So then, they which be of faith are
blessed with faithful Abraham.
3:10 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.
3:11 But, that no man is justified by the
law, in the sight of God,
it is evident:
For, The just shall live by faith.
3:12 And the law is not of faith:
But, The man that doeth them,
shall live in them.
3:13 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;
3:14 that the blessing of Abraham might
come on the Gentiles through
Jesus Christ;
that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit, through faith.
3:15 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.
3:16 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.
3:17 And this I say, that the covenant,
that was confirmed before,
of God in Christ,
he law, which was four hundred and thirty
years after, cannot disannul,
that it should make the promise,
of none effect.
3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law,
it is no more of promise:
But God gave it to Abraham by promise.
3:19 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.
3:20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of
one, but God is one.
3:21 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.
3:22 But the scripture hath
concluded all under sin,
that the promise, by faith of
Jesus Christ, might be given to
them that believe.
3:23 But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up unto the
faith,
which should, afterwards, be revealed.
3:24 Wherefore, the law was our
schoolmaster,
to bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by faith.
3:25 But, after that faith is come,
we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
3:26 For ye are all the
children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus.
3:27 For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ,
have put on Christ.
3:28 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.
3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye
Abraham's seed, and heirs,
according to the promise.
Ch. 4 Gal.
4:1 Now I say, That the heir,
as long as he is a child,
differeth nothing from a servant;
though he be lord of all;
4:2 but is under tutors and governors,
until the time appointed of the father.
4:3 Even so we, when we were
children, were in bondage under the
elements of the world:
4:4 But when the fullness of the time was
come, God sent forth his Son,
made of a woman, made under the law,
4:5 to redeem them that were
under the law, 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, crying, Abba, Father.
4:7 Wherefore,
thou art no more a servant, but a son;
and if a son, then
an heir of God, through Christ.
4:8 Howbeit then,
when ye knew not God,
ye did service unto them which,
by nature, are no gods.
4:9 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?
4:10 Ye observe days, and months,
and times, and years.
4:11 I am afraid of you,
lest I have bestowed upon you
labor in vain.
4:12 Brethren, I beseech you,
be as I am; for I am as ye are:
Ye have not injured me, at all.
4:13 Ye know, how through infirmity of
the flesh,
I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
4:14 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.
4:15 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.
4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy,
because I tell you the truth?
4:17 They zealously affect you,
but not well; yea,
they would exclude you,
that ye might affect them.
4:18 But, it is good to be
zealously affected always, in a
good thing, and
not only when I am present with you.
4:19 My little children,
of whom I travail in birth, again,
until Christ be formed in you,
4:20 I desire to be present with you now,
and to change my voice;
for I stand in doubt of you.
4:21 Tell me,
ye that desire to be under the law,
do ye not hear the law?
4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had
two sons, the one by a bondmaid,
the other by a freewoman.
4:23 But he who was of the
bondwoman, was born after the flesh;
but he of the freewoman, was by promise.
4:24 Which things are an allegory:
For these are the two covenants; the
one from the mount Sinai,
which gendereth to bondage,
which is Agar.
4:25 For this Agar, is mount Sinai, in Arabia,
and answereth to Jerusalem,
which now is, and is in
bondage with her children.
4:26 But Jerusalem, which is above,
is free, which is the mother of us all.
4:27 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.
4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,
are the children of promise.
4:29 But, as then,
he that was born after the
flesh persecuted him that
was born after the Spirit,
even so, it is now.
4:30 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.
4:31 So then, brethren,
we are not children of the bondwoman,
but of the free.
Ch. 5 Gal.
5:1 Stand fast, therefore, in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free,
and be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage.
5:2 Behold, I Paul, say unto you,
that if ye be circumcised, Christ
shall profit you nothing.
5:3 For I testify again,
to every man that is circumcised,
that he is a debtor, to do the whole law.
5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are
justified by the law;
ye are fallen from grace.
5:5 For we, through the Spirit,
wait for the hope of righteousness,
by faith.
5:6 For in Jesus Christ,
neither circumcision availeth any thing,
nor un-circumcision;
but faith, which worketh by love.
5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you,
that ye should not obey the truth?
5:8 This persuasion cometh not of
him that calleth you.
5:9 A little leaven,
leaveneth the whole lump.
5:10 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.
5:11 And I, brethren,
if I yet preach circumcision,
why do I yet suffer persecution?
Then is the offence of the cross ceased.
5:12 I would, they were even cut off,
which trouble you.
5:13 For, brethren,
ye have been called unto liberty;
only use not liberty for an occasion to
the flesh,
but by love, serve one another.
5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in
one word, even in this;
thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself.
5:15 But if ye
bite and devour one another,
take heed that ye be not
consumed, one of another.
5:16 This I say then,
walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not
fulfill the lust of the flesh.
5:17 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.
5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit,
ye are not under the law.
5:19 Now the works of the flesh are
manifest, which are these;
adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness,
5:20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies,
5:21 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.
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
5:23 meekness, temperance:
Against such, there is no law.
5:24 And they that are Christ's,
have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts.
5:25 If we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit.
5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory,
provoking one another,
envying one another.
Ch. 6 Gal.
6:1 Brethren,
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.
6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so,
fulfill the law of Christ.
6:3 For if a man think himself to be
something, when he is nothing, he
deceiveth himself.
6:4 But let every man prove his own work,
and then shall he have rejoicing,
in himself alone, and not in another.
6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.
6:6 Let him that is taught in the word,
communicate unto him that
teacheth, in all good things.
6:7 Be not deceived;
God is not mocked:
For whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.
6:8 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.
6:9 And let us not be weary in
well doing:
For in due season, we shall
reap, if we faint not.
6:10 As we have, therefore, opportunity,
let us do good unto all men,
especially unto them who are of the
household of faith.
6:11 Ye see how large a letter I
have written unto you,
with mine own hand.
6:12 As many as desire to make a
fair shew in the flesh,
they constrain you to be
circumcised; only,
lest they should suffer persecution,
for the cross of Christ.
6:13 For neither they themselves,
who are circumcised keep the law; but
desire to have you circumcised,
that they may glory in your flesh.
6:14 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.
6:15 For in Christ Jesus,
neither circumcision availeth any thing,
nor un-circumcision,
but a new creature.
6:16 And, as many as walk according to
this rule, peace be on them, and
mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
6:17 From henceforth,
let no man trouble me:
For I bear in my body the
marks of the Lord Jesus.
6:18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord,
Jesus Christ, be with your spirit.
Amen.