Paul, an apostle not from men nor sent by any man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead??2 and all the brothers who are here with me, to the churches of Galatia;

blessing and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.

Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.

I did not receive it from any man, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

to gratify the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who sneaked in to spy upon the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery again.

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

If through our efforts to be made upright through Christ, we have ourselves been proved as much "sinners" as the heathen, does that make Christ encourage sin? By no means.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

I refuse to nullify the mercy of God. For if uprightness could be secured through law, then Christ died for nothing!

You senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, when you had Jesus Christ shown crucified right before your eyes?

Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")

in order that the blessing given to Abraham might through Jesus Christ reach the heathen, so that through faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

Now the promises were made to Abraham and his line. It does not say, "and to your lines," in the plural, but in the singular, "and to your line," that is, Christ.

But the Scripture describes all mankind as the prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing might on the ground of faith in Jesus Christ be given to those who have faith.

So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through your faith.

For all of you who have been baptized into union with Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are true descendants of Abraham and his heirs under the promise.

and yet what must have tried you in my physical condition, you did not scorn and despise, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

my children??ou for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.

This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.

Why, I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ can do nothing for you.

You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.

For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings.

Bear one another's burdens, and in that way carry out the law of the Christ.

These men who are trying to force you to let yourselves be circumcised want to present a good appearance externally, to save themselves from having to stand persecution for the cross of Jesus the Christ.

But I never want to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on which the world has been crucified to me and I have been to the world.

The blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.