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

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that [life] I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.

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

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

Have you suffered so many [things] for nothing--if indeed also [it was] for nothing?

But when the fullness of time came, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked, for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap,

Brothers, even if a person is caught in some trespass, you [who are] spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of humility, looking out for yourself, lest you also be tempted.

I am astonished that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you by the grace of Christ to a different gospel,

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law [by] becoming a curse for us, because it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who hangs on a tree,"

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, [if we] do not give up.

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

But not even Titus [who was] with me, [although] he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

Carry the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law {no human being will be justified}.

for as many [of you] as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

to whom [be] the glory forever and ever. Amen.

And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba! (Father!),"

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed [as] having been crucified?

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed [him] to his face, because he was condemned.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all [people], and especially to those who belong to the household of faith.

But [as] for me, may it never be [that I] boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

This persuasion [is] not from the one who calls you!

not that [there] is a different [gospel], except there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who does not abide by all [the things] that are written in the book of the law to do them."

Now to Abraham and to his descendant the promises were spoken. It does not say, "and to descendants," as concerning many, but as concerning one, "and to your descendant," who is Christ.

So then, the law became our guardian until Christ, in order that we could be justified by faith.

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught [it], but [I received it] through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.

For I make known to you, brothers, the gospel that has been proclaimed by me, that it is not {of human origin}.

Paul, an apostle not from men nor by men but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,

But before faith came, we were detained under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.

For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, [because] I was a far more zealous adherent of the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

so that you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir through God.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].

For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

And if you [are] Christ's, then you are descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

Now the one who is taught the word must share in all good [things] with the one who teaches.

Tell me, [you] who are wanting to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

Now [this was] because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us,

A little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough.

Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the descendant should come to whom it had been promised, having been ordered through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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

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

Now [it is] clear that no one is justified in the sight of God by the law, because "the one who is righteous will live by faith."

Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,

to reveal his Son in me in order that I would proclaim the gospel [about] him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not consult with flesh and blood,

You are estranged from Christ, [you] who are attempting to be justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will think nothing different, but the one who is confusing you {will pay the penalty}, whoever he may be.

Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the good news in advance to Abraham: "In you all the nations will be blessed."

Now I say, for as long a time [as] the heir is a child, [he is] no different from a slave, [although he] is master of everything,

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

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those [who were] apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia and I returned again to Damascus.

Then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,

(Now [the things] which I am writing to you, behold, [I assure you] before God that I am not lying.)

but I was unknown {in person} to the churches of Judea [that are] in Christ,

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain continually with you.

and they were only hearing, "The one formerly persecuting us is now proclaiming the faith that formerly he was attempting to destroy,"

and they were glorifying God because of me.

So then, the ones [who have] faith are blessed together with Abraham who believed.

But from those {who were influential} (whatever they were, [it makes] no difference to me, {God does not show partiality})--for those who were influential added nothing to me.

You carefully observe days and months and seasons and years.

For not even those who are circumcised observe the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised in order that they may boast in your flesh.

As many as are wanting to make a good showing in the flesh, these are attempting to compel you to be circumcised, only so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.

(for the one who was at work through Peter for [his] apostleship to the circumcision was at work also through me for the Gentiles),

But the law is not from faith, but "the one who does these [things] will live by them."

I am afraid [for] you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!

But these, [when they] saw that I had been entrusted [with] the gospel to the uncircumcision, just as Peter to the circumcision

I wish that the ones who are disturbing you would also {castrate themselves}!

But you know that because of an illness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.

For before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, [because he] was afraid of those [who were] of the circumcision,

I ask you, brothers, become like me, because I also [have become] like you. You have done me no [wrong]!

But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of [them] all, "If you, [although you] are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

Now the mediator is not for one, but God is one.

For if the inheritance [is] from the law, [it is] no longer from the promise, but God graciously gave [it] to Abraham through the promise.

For through the Spirit by faith we eagerly await the hope of righteousness.

Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I carry on my body the marks of Jesus.

and the rest of the Jews also joined in [this] hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with them in [their] hypocrisy.

Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.

But the one by the female slave was born according to human descent, and the one by the free woman through the promise,

For if anyone thinks he is something [although he] is nothing, he is deceiving himself.

And you did not despise or disdain [what was] a trial for you in my flesh, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus.

But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in someone else.

But [after] faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

So where [is] your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes [and] given [them] to me!

But if [while] seeking to be justified by Christ, [we] ourselves also have been found [to be] sinners, then [is] Christ an agent of sin? May it never be!

For if I build up again these [things] which I destroyed, I show myself [to be] a transgressor.

And again I testify to every man who becomes circumcised, that he is under obligation to keep the whole law.

For each one will carry his own burden.

We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.

They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them [zealously].

But [it is] good to be sought zealously in good at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

which [things] are spoken allegorically, for these [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing [children] for slavery, who is Hagar.

But I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone because I am perplexed about you.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is a slave with her children.

For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren woman, who does not give birth to [children]; burst out and shout, [you] who do not have birth pains, because many [are] the children of the desolate [woman], even more than [those of] the one who has a husband."

but he is under guardians and managers until the time set by [his] father.

But just as at that time the [child] born according to human descent persecuted the [child born] according to the Spirit, so also now.

But what does the scripture say? "Drive out the female slave and her son, for the son of the female slave will never inherit with the son" of the free woman.

But you, brothers, are children of the promise, just as Isaac.

Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking along Titus also.

and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia.

But when the one who set me apart from my mother's womb and called [me] by his grace was pleased

We [are] Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles,

I do not declare invalid the grace of God, for if righteousness [is] through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.

But the scripture imprisoned all under sin, in order that the promise could be given by faith in Jesus Christ to those who believe.

and [when] James and Cephas and John--those thought to be pillars--acknowledged the grace given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right [hand] of fellowship, in order that we [should go] to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision.

My children, for whom I am having birth pains again, until Christ is formed in you!

in order that he might redeem those under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption.

Brothers, I am speaking according to a human perspective. Nevertheless, [when] the covenant of a man has been ratified, no one declares [it] invalid or adds additional provisions [to it].

[They asked] only that we should remember the poor, the very thing I was also eager to do.

in order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

because the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

And all those who follow this rule, peace and mercy [be] on them and on the Israel of God.

But at that time [when you] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,

then understand that the ones {who have faith}, these are sons of Abraham.

For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

I want only to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,

But now, [because you] have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

but I did not see [any] others of the apostles except James, the brother of the Lord.

So then, have I become your enemy [by] being truthful to you?

Look! I, Paul, tell you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing!

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, [things] which I am telling you [in advance], just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Therefore does the one who gives you the Spirit and who works miracles among you [do so] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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

Now I am saying this: the law, that came after four hundred and thirty years, does not revoke a covenant previously ratified by God, in order to nullify the promise.

See with what large letters I am writing to you with my [own] hand.

But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now trying to be made complete by the flesh?

gentleness, self control. Against such things [there] is no law.

As we said before, and now I say again, if anyone is proclaiming a gospel [to] you contrary to what you have received, let him be accursed!

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female slave but of the free woman.

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