PAUL the apostle (not [sent] from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and our Father who raised him from the dead),

which is not another; but there are certain persons who trouble you, and desire to pervert the gospel of Christ.

For do I now use persuasions from men, or from God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

But I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not a merely human ministry.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach the glad tidings of him to the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

Now respecting the things which I write unto you, behold, in the presence of God, I lie not.

And I went up then by revelation, and laid before them that gospel which I preach among the Heathen, but in private conference with those who were of the first importance, that haply I might not run, nor had run in vain.

And even Titus, who was with me, though a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised:

to whom not even for an hour have we yielded subjection, that the truth of the gospel might abide with you.

But from those who appeared men of the greatest importance, (what sort of men soever they were it maketh no difference to me: God accepteth not a man's person;) for these important personages in conference added nothing to me;

But when I saw that they walked not directly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to judaize?

We who are Jews by descent, and not sinners sprung from Gentiles,

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

I do not set at nought the grace of God; for if righteousness came by the law, truly Christ hath died in vain.

O INFATUATED Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth? To whom Jesus Christ has been described, as before your eyes, crucified among you.

For as many as are of the works of the law, are under a curse: for it is written, "Cursed is every one who continueth not in all the things written in the book of the law to do them."

Now the law is not by faith: but "The man that doeth these things shall live by them."

But to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, To seeds, as unto many persons; but as to an individual, and to thy seed, which is Christ.

But the mediator of the one [seed] he is not, though God is one.

But at that time when ye knew not God, ye served those who by nature are not gods.

Be as I am, for I also am as ye are, brethren??his is my request to you: ye have not injured me in the least.

And my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye despised not, nor rejected with disgust; but as an angel of God ye received me, even as Christ Jesus himself.

They affect zeal for you, not honourably; but they wish to exclude us, that you may be zealously attached to them.

It is good indeed to be zealously affected in a good cause always, and not only when I am present with you.

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

For it is written, "Rejoice, thou barren who bearest not, cry out and shout for joy, thou that travailest not, for more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her which had an husband."

So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

STAND fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again held under a yoke of bondage.

Ye were running well: who hath hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

This persuasion cometh not from him who called you.

For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed by one another.

But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

For the flesh hath appetites contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these act in opposition the one to the other: so that ye do not the things which ye would.

But if ye are under the conduct of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Let us not be vain-glorious, irritating one another, envying one another.

But let every man bring his own work to the test, and then shall he have glorying in himself alone, and not [by comparison] with another.

Be not deceived; God is not to be trifled with: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Let us not then be weary of well-doing; for in due time we shall reap, if we faint not.

As many as wish to make a fair appearance in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

For even they who are themselves circumcised do not keep the law, but desire you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.