And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

I rejoice that I have complete confidence in you.

With them I am sending our brother of whose zeal I have often had proof in many ways, and who is now zealous because of his great confidence in you.

Now we have fully fixed our faith on you in the Lord, that you are doing and will continue to do what we enjoin.

Because I am thoroughly persuaded of your obedience, I have written you, knowing full well that you will do by me what I am asking.

But

for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.

Those who are trying to compel you to be circumcised are such as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

But some men came down from Judea and attempted to teach the brethren, saying, "Unless you are circumcised according to Moses' custom, you cannot be saved."

My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour.

Bear

Would to God that those who are trying to unsettle you would even have themselves mutilated.

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Sufficient for the offender is the punishment imposed by the majority;

For this reason I am writing thus while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

Whosoever

But those in authority??hat they once were makes no difference to me; God is no respecter of persons??hose I say who were in authority had no additions to make my message.

Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man??ven if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer.

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Because I am thoroughly persuaded of your obedience, I have written you, knowing full well that you will do by me what I am asking.