And I wrote this to you, that when I come I may not have grief from those of whom I ought to receive joy, being persuaded concerning all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

I rejoice therefore that in every thing I have confidence in you.

And we have sent with them another brother of ours, whom we have often proved diligent in many things, and now I doubt not much more on account of his great confidence in you.

And we trust in the Lord concerning you, that ye both do and will do the things which we give you in charge.

Being fully persuaded of thy compliance, I have written to thee; knowing that thou wilt indeed do more than I ask.

But

but there be some that disturb you, and would subvert the gospel of Christ.

and that because of the false brethren clandestinely introduced, who had crept in as spies upon our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

O senseless Galatians, who hath so bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth? you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth as crucified.

They are zealous for you, but not as they ought: for they would exclude us, that ye may be zealous for them:

They, who want to make a fair appearance in the flesh, would constrain you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Now some that came down from Judea, taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised according to the law of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that an antichrist will come, there are even now many antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time.

Bear

I wish they were even cut off from your communion, that make such disturbance amongst you.

of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

all) though sufficient to such a one is the censure passed on him by many.

but being absent am bold towards you, yea I intreat you, that I may not be bold, when I am present, with that confidence, wherewith I think to proceed against some, who censure us as walking after the flesh.

Therefore I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Whosoever

And as to those who seemed to be men of note, whatever they were, it is all one to me, (God accepteth no man's person) for even these eminent persons added nothing more to me.

Wherefore we henceforth know no one according to the flesh: and if we have known even Christ after the flesh, yet now we thus know Him no more.

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Being fully persuaded of thy compliance, I have written to thee; knowing that thou wilt indeed do more than I ask.