The Letter Of Paul The Apostle To The Galatians
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 brothers 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 forever and ever.
Amen.
1:6 I marvel that you 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 you 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, brothers, 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 you have heard of my manner
of life in time past in the Jews'
religion, 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 my 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
those who 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 Judaea which were in Christ:
1:23 But they had heard only, That he
which persecuted us in times
past now preaches the faith which once
he destroyed.
1:24 And they glorified God in me.
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 those who
were of reputation, lest by any means
I should run, or had run, in
vain.
2:3 But not even Titus, who was with
me, being a Greek, was compelled
to be circumcised:
2:4 And that because of false brothers
unawares brought in, who came
in secretly 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
makes no matter to me: God accepts 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
uncircumcision was committed unto me,
as the gospel of the
circumcision was unto Peter;
2:8 (For he that wrought effectively
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 eager 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 had come, he
withdrew and separated himself,
fearing those who 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 you, being
a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles,
and not as do the Jews, why
do you compel 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 lives 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.
3:1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched
you, that you should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus
Christ has been evidently set
forth, crucified among you?
3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received
you the Spirit by the
works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith?
3:3 Are you so foolish? having begun
in the Spirit, are you now made
perfect by the flesh?
3:4 Have you suffered so many things
in vain? if it be yet in vain.
3:5 He therefore that ministers to you
the Spirit, and works miracles
among you, does he do it by the works
of the law, or by the hearing of
faith?
3:6 Just as Abraham believed God, and
it was accounted to him for
righteousness.
3:7 Know you 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 you
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 continues 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 does them shall
live in them.
3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a
curse for us: for it is written, Cursed
is every one that hangs 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 disannulls, or adds
thereto.
3:16 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 your seed, which is
Christ.
3:17 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 no 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 Why then serves 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, truthfully
righteousness should have been by the
law.
3:22 But the scripture has 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 Therefore the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by faith.
3:25 But after faith is come, we are
no longer under a schoolmaster.
3:26 For you 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
you are all one in Christ Jesus.
3:29 And if you be Christ's, then are
you Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long
as he is a child, differs
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 you are sons, God has
sent forth the Spirit of his Son
into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
4:7 Therefore you are no more a servant,
but a son; and if a son, then
an heir of God through Christ.
4:8 Howbeit then, when you did not know
God, you did service unto
those who by nature are no gods.
4:9 But now, after you have known God,
or rather are known of God, how
turn you again to the weak and beggarly
elements, whereunto you desire
again to be in bondage?
4:10 You 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 you are: you
have not injured me at all.
4:13 You 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 you looked down upon not,
nor rejected; but received me as an angel
of God, just as Christ
Jesus.
4:15 Where is then the blessedness you
spoke of? for I bear you
record, that, if it had been possible,
you 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; yes, they would exclude
you, that you 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, you that desire to be under
the law, do you 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 genders
to bondage, which is Agar.
4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in
Arabia, and answers 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, you
barren that bear not; break forth
and cry, you that travail not: for the
desolate has many more children
than she which has a husband.
4:28 Now we, brothers, 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 says 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, brothers, we are not children
of the bondwoman, but of
the free.
5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty
with which Christ has made us
free, and be not entangled again with
the yoke of bondage.
5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that
if you 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; you 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
avails any thing, nor
uncircumcision; but faith which works
by love.
5:7 You did run well; who did hinder
you that you should not obey the
truth?
5:8 This persuasion comes not of him
that calls you.
5:9 A little leaven leavens the whole
lump.
5:10 I have confidence in you through
the Lord, that you will be none
otherwise minded: but he that troubles
you shall bear his judgment,
whosoever he be.
5:11 And I, brothers, if I yet preach
circumcision, why do I yet
suffer persecution? then is the offense
of the cross ceased.
5:12 I would they were even cut off which
trouble you.
5:13 For, brothers, you 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; You shall
love your neighbor as yourself.
5:15 But if you bite and devour one another,
take heed that you be not
consumed one of another.
5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit,
and you shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
5:17 For the flesh lusts against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh: and these are contrary the
one to the other: so that you
cannot do the things that you would.
5:18 But if you be led of the Spirit,
you 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.
6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in
a fault, you who are spiritual,
restore such a one in the spirit of meekness;
considering yourself,
lest you also be tempted.
6:2 Bear you 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
deceives 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
teaches in all good things.
6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man sows,
that shall he also reap.
6:8 For he that sows to his flesh shall
of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that sows 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 do not quit.
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 You see how large a letter I have
written unto you with my own
hand.
6:12 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.
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
avails any thing, nor
uncircumcision, 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 now on 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.