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

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

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

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

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

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

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

Do not be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also are not tempted.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we do not give up.

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should proclaim to you a "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

Bear one another's burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

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 children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba, Father."

Foolish Galatians, who has cunningly deceived you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth as crucified?

You were running well. Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

and there is not another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News 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 continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father?

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

But I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

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

to reveal his Son to me, that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

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

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying.

I was still unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ,

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy."

And they glorified God because of me.

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God does not show partiality to man)?they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

For even they who receive circumcision do not keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you do not consume one another.

(for he who appointed Peter to be an apostle of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

but you know that in physical weakness I preached the Good News to you the first time;

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, how can you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

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

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body.

And the rest of the Jewish believers joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

I went up by revelation, and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Where was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not.

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

For each man will bear his own burden.

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

They zealously seek you, but for no good purpose; they desire to alienate you, that you may be zealous for them.

But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to slavery, which is Hagar.

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

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and represents Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in slavery with her children.

For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who do not bear. Break forth and shout, you that do not travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."

Now you, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

and all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

"We, being Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners,

I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing."

But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they 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.

My children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you?

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

They only asked us to remember the poor?which very thing I was also zealous to do.

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God's Israel.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I severely persecuted the church of God, and tried to destroy it.

Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

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

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord's brother.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

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

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you a "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not. For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

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