But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh.

For all of you are God's children through faith in the Messiah Jesus.

Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity,

The Messiah has set us free so that we may enjoy the benefits of freedom. So keep on standing firm in it, and stop putting yourselves under the yoke of slavery again.

Did you suffer so much for nothing? (If it really was for nothing!)

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,

Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants:

Brothers, if a person is caught doing something wrong, those of you who are spiritual should restore that person gently. Watch out for yourself so that you are not tempted as well.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of the Messiah and, instead, are following a different gospel,

The Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who is hung on a tree!"

For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.

Let's not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that person be condemned!

But not even Titus, who was with me, was forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

Practice carrying each other's burdens. In this way you will fulfill the law of the Messiah.

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

Indeed, all of you who were baptized into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah.

To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts to cry out, "Abba! Father!"

You foolish Galatians! Who put you under a spell? Was not Jesus the Messiah clearly portrayed before your very eyes as having been crucified?

You were running the race beautifully. Who cut in on you and stopped you from obeying the truth?

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly wrong.

So then, whenever we have the opportunity, let's practice doing good to everyone, especially to the family of faith.

But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!

for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love.

Such influence does not come from the one who calls you.

not that another one really exists. To be sure, there are certain people who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel about the Messiah.

Certainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!"

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. It doesn't say "descendants," referring to many, but "your descendant," referring to one person, who is the Messiah.

And so the Law was our guardian until the Messiah came, so that we might be justified by faith.

For I did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it, but it was revealed to me by Jesus the Messiah.

Since we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also be guided.

For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin.

From: Paul an apostle not sent from men or by a man, but by Jesus the Messiah, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead

Now before faith came about, we were held in custody and confined under the Law in preparation for the faith that was to be revealed.

Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant.

I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries, because I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir because of what God did.

For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.

For the whole Law is summarized in a single statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

And if you belong to the Messiah, then you are Abraham's descendants indeed, and heirs according to the promise.

The person who is taught the word should share all his goods with his teacher.

Tell me, those of you who want to live under the Law: Are you really listening to what the Law says?

However, false brothers were secretly brought in. They slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in the Messiah Jesus so that they might enslave us.

A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough.

Why, then, was the Law added? Because of transgressions, until the descendant came about whom the promise pertained. It was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

Then three years later, I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him for fifteen days.

He gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.

Now it is obvious that no one is justified in the sight of God by the Law, because "The righteous will live by faith."

As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching the necessity of circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

In the same way, Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

to reveal his Son to me so that I might proclaim him among the gentiles, I did not confer with another human being at any time,

Those of you who are trying to be justified by the Law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace.

I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view of this. However, the one who is troubling you will suffer God's judgment, whoever he is.

Now those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

Because the Scripture saw ahead of time that God would justify the gentiles by faith, it announced the gospel to Abraham beforehand when it said, "Through you all nations will be blessed."

Now what I am saying is this: As long as an heir is a child, he is no better off than a slave, even though he owns everything.

May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me. Instead, I went away to Arabia and then came back to Damascus.

Then I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

(Before God, what I'm writing to you is the truth.)

But the churches of the Messiah that are in Judea did not yet know me personally.

But we did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.

The only thing they kept hearing was this: "The man who used to persecute us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy!"

So they kept glorifying God for what had happened to me.

Therefore, those who believe are blessed together with Abraham, the one who believed.

Now those who were reputed to be important added nothing to my message. (What sort of people they were makes no difference to me, since God pays no attention to outward appearances.)

You are observing days, months, seasons, and years.

Why, not even those who are circumcised obey the Law! They simply want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your external appearance.

These people who want to impress others by their external appearance are trying to force you to be circumcised, simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of the Messiah.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other.

For the one who worked through Peter by making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me by sending me to the gentiles.

But the Law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, "The person who keeps the commandments will have life in them."

I am afraid for you! I don't want my work for you to have been wasted!

In fact, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised.

I wish that those who are upsetting you would castrate themselves!

You know that it was because I was ill that I brought you the gospel the first time.

Until some men arrived from James, he was in the habit of eating with the gentiles, but after those men came, he withdrew from the gentiles and would not associate with them any longer, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

I beg you, brothers, to become like me, since I became like you. You did not do anything wrong to me.

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "Though you are a Jew, you have been living like a gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the gentiles must live like Jews?"

May the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be with your spirit, brothers! Amen.

Now a mediator involves more than one party, but God is one.

For if the inheritance comes about through the Law, it no longer comes about through the promise. But it was through a promise that God so graciously gave it to Abraham.

Through the Spirit by faith we confidently await the fulfillment of our righteous hope,

Let no one make any more trouble for me, because I carry the scars of Jesus on my own body.

The other Jews also joined him in this hypocritical behavior, to the extent that even Barnabas was caught up in their hypocrisy.

I went in response to a revelation, and in a private meeting with the reputed leaders, I explained to them the gospel that I'm proclaiming to the gentiles. I did this because I was afraid that I was running or had run my life's race for nothing.

Now the slave woman's son was conceived through human means, while the free woman's son was conceived through divine promise.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is only fooling himself.

Even though my condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. On the contrary, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, or as if I were the Messiah Jesus.

Each person must examine his own actions, and then he can boast about his own accomplishments and not about someone else.

But now that faith has come about, we are no longer under a guardian.

What, then, happened to your positive attitude? For I testify that if it had been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Now if we, while trying to be justified by the Messiah, have been found to be sinners, does that mean that the Messiah is serving the interests of sin? Of course not!

For if I rebuild something that I tore down, I demonstrate that I am a wrongdoer.

Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised is obligated to obey the entire Law.

For everyone must carry his own load.

Let's stop being arrogant, provoking one another and envying one another.

It was the same way with us. While we were children, we were slaves to the basic principles of the world.

These people who have been instructing you are devoted to you, but not in a good way. They want you to avoid me so that you will be devoted to them.

(Now it is always good to be devoted to a good cause, even when I am not with you.)

This is being said as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. The one woman, Hagar, is from Mount Sinai, and her children are born into slavery.

Indeed, I wish I were with you right now so that I could change the tone of my voice, because I am completely baffled by you!

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery along with her children.

For it is written, "Rejoice, you childless woman, who cannot give birth to any children! Break into song and shout, you who feel no pains of childbirth! For the children of the deserted woman are more numerous than the children of the woman who has a husband."

Instead, he is placed under the care of guardians and servant managers until the time set by the father.

But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.

But what does the Scripture say? "Drive out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman must never share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

So you, brothers, are children of the promise, like Isaac.

Then fourteen years later, I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

and all the brothers who are with me. To: The churches in Galatia.

But when God, who set me apart before I was born and who called me by his grace, was pleased

We ourselves are Jews by birth, and not gentile sinners,

I do not misapply God's grace, for if righteousness comes about by doing what the Law requires, then the Messiah died for nothing.

But the Scripture has captured everything by means of sin's net, so that what was promised by the faithfulness of the Messiah might be granted to those who believe.

So when James, Cephas, and John (who were reputed to be leaders) recognized the grace that had been given me, they gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised.

My children, I am suffering birth pains for you again until the Messiah is formed in you.

in order to redeem those who were under the Law, and thus to adopt them as his children.

Brothers, let me use an example from everyday life. Once an agreement has been ratified, no one can cancel it or add conditions to it.

The only thing they asked us to do was to remember the destitute, the very thing I was eager to do.

This happened in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the gentiles through the Messiah Jesus, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

The person who sows through human means will harvest decay from human means, but the person who sows in the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.

Now may peace be on all those who live by this principle, and may mercy be on the Israel of God.

However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.

For you have heard about my earlier life in Judaism how I kept violently persecuting God's church and was trying to destroy it.

You see, then, that those who have faith are Abraham's real descendants.

For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with the Messiah.

I want to learn only one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the actions of the Law or by believing what you heard?

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, rivalry, jealously, outbursts of anger, quarrels, conflicts, factions,

But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?

But I did not see any other apostle except James, the Lord's brother.

So have I now become your enemy for telling you the truth?

Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, the Messiah will be of no benefit to you.

envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you because you do the actions of the Law or because you believe what you heard?

But if you are being led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

This is what I mean: The Law that came 430 years later did not cancel the covenant that God ratified previously. The promise was never nullified.

Look at how large these letters are because I am writing with my own hand!

But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our spiritual mother.

Are you so foolish? Having started out with the Spirit, are you now ending up with the flesh?

gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.

What we have told you in the past I am now telling you again: If anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that person be condemned!

So is the Law in conflict with the promises of God? Of course not! For if a law had been given that could give us life, then certainly righteousness would come through the Law.

So then, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman.