For not through the Law was the promise made to Abraham or his offspring that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

Therefore the inheritance was made to depend on faith, that it might be a matter of grace; that the promise might be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is under the Law, but to that also which hath the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

For he had confident hope in that which was past hope, that he should become a father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, "Thus shall thy offspring be;"

nor did he waver in respect to the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

And therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness.

And that it was so accounted was not written for his sake alone,

who was delivered up on account of our trespasses, and raised from the dead that we might be accepted as righteous.

(for all the time before the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not set to ones account when there is no law.

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the manner in which Adam transgressed; who is a type of him who was to come.

But the free gift was not as the transgression. For if through the offence of the one the many died, much more hath the grace of God, and the gift which is by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many.

We then by this baptism into his death were buried with him; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin;

But thanks be to God that, though ye were the bondmen of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching which was delivered to you;

So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

And I, apart from the Law, was once alive; but when the commandment came, sin came to life again, and I died;

and the very commandment whose design was life, I found to issue in death.

For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God hath done, who on account of sin sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and passed sentence of condemnation on sin in the flesh;

For the creation was brought into subjection to vanity not of its own will, but by reason of him who put it into subjection,

who are Israelites; whom God adopted as sons, whose was the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of the sanctuary, and the promises;

whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen.

it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger:"

as he also saith in Hosea, "I will call that my people, which was not my people; and her beloved, that was not beloved.

And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called sons of the living God."

But Isaiah is very bold, and saith, "I was found by those who sought me not, I became known to those who inquired not for me."

Be it so. It was for their unbelief that they were broken off, and thou standest through thy faith; be not highminded, but fear.

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which for eternal ages was unrevealed,

as the testimony of Christ was established among you;

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized the name of Paul?

But from him it is that ye are in Christ Jesus, who from God was made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption;

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling;

but we speak Gods wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God determined on before the world was, for our glory;

I also, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as those who are not spiritual, as to babes in Christ.

Was any one called being circumcised, let him not become as if uncircumcised; hath any one been called in uncircumcision, let him not become circumcised.

Let every one remain in the same calling in which he was called.

Wast thou called being a slave, care not for it; but even if thou canst be made free, use it rather.

For he that was called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lords freeman. In like manner the freeman, who is called, is Christs slave.

In that state, brethren, in which he was called, let every one remain with God.

Or doth he say it altogether on our account? On our account, no doubt, it was written, that he who plougheth ought to plough in hope, and that he who thrasheth should do it in the hope of partaking.

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of the spiritual rock that accompanied them; and the rock was Christ;

but with most of them God was not well pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.

and the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took a loaf,

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the feelings of a child, I thought as a child; since I have become a man, I have put away the things of the child.

and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Scriptures;

But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

As was the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly;

As regards Apollos, the brother, I urged him much to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his will to come at this time; but he will come when he hath a convenient opportunity.

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; for what was lacking on your part, they supplied;

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

And in this confidence it was my purpose to come to you before, that ye might receive a second benefit;

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not found yea and nay, but in him hath been found yea.

But I call upon God as a witness against my soul, that it was to spare you that I came no more to Corinth;

Sufficient for such a one is this punishment, which was inflicted by the many;

But if the ministration of death, engraven in letters on stones, was so glorious, that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses by reason of the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away,

For even that which was made glorious hath ceased to be glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory by which it is exceeded.

For if that which was to be done away was glorious, much more glorious is that which endureth.

and do not as Moses did, who put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the end of that which was to be done away.

For whether we were beside ourselves, it was for God; or whether we are in our sound mind, it is for you.

seeing that in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

and not by his coming only, but by the comfort with which he was comforted in regard to you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal in my behalf; so that I rejoiced the more.

For though I caused you sorrow with the letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it; for I perceive that that letter caused you sorrow, though it was but for a short time.

Although, then, I wrote to you, it was not on account of him that did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong; but that your earnestness for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

for if in anything I have boasted to him of you, I am not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting, which we made before Titus, was found to be truth;

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Now therefore perform the doing of it, that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

and not that only, but who was also appointed by the churches as our fellowtraveler in the matter of this bounty, which is administered by us to the honor of the Lord himself, and of our ready mind;

For I know your readiness of mind, of which I boast in behalf of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared a year ago; and your zeal stirred up the greater part of them.

I thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty, which was already announced, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.

and when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; (for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied my wants;) and in every thing I kept myself and will keep myself from being burdensome to you.

thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have spent in the deep;

and through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.

I have become a fool; it is ye that compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles, though I am nothing.

For what is there in which ye were at disadvantage when compared with other churches, except that I myself was not a charge to you? Forgive me this wrong.

But be it so; I at least was not a charge to you; but yet, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live together with him by the power of God toward you.

But I assure you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not after man;

for I did not receive it from man nor was I taught it by any man, but it was revealed to me by Jesus Christ.

For ye have heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and was destroying it,

and I was unknown by face to the churches of Judaea which were in Christ;

but they were only hearing that "He who was once our persecutor is now preaching the faith which he was once destroying";

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

But on the contrary, when they saw that I was intrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, as Peter was with that to the circumcised,

and when they knew the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the gentiles, and they to the circumcised;

only they wished us to remember the poor; which very thing I also was earnest to do.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face; for he was condemned.

And the other Jews also dissembled with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you? before whose eyes Jesus Christ was plainly set forth among you crucified.

This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from the works of the Law that ye received the Spirit, or by the preaching of faith?

Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness."

Moreover the Scripture, foreseeing that God was to accept the gentiles as righteous by faith, proclaimed beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham, saying, "In thee shall all nations be blessed."

to the end that in Christ Jesus the blessing promised to Abraham might come to the gentiles, that we through faith might receive the Spirit which was promised.

And what I mean is this; that a covenant that was before ratified by God, the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, cannot annul, so as to make void the promise;

To what end then was the Law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise belongeth, having been ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Is then the Law against the promises of God? Far be it! For if a law had been given which was able to give life, righteousness would indeed have been by the Law;

But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the Law, shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed.

Nay, ye know that it was on account of an infirmity of the flesh that I preached the gospel to you the former time,

and my trial which was in my flesh ye did not despise nor spurn; but received me as an angel of God, yea, as Christ Jesus.

How great then was your boasting of happiness! for I bear you witness, that if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.