Paul an apostle (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

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

who gave himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father:

For do I now persuade you to obey men or God? Or do I seek to please men? if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

For ye have heard of my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I outragiously persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste:

But when it pleased God, (who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,)

(Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.)

And they glorified God on my account.

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.

God forbid. And if I build again the same things which I demolished, I shew myself a transgressor: for I through the law am dead to the law,

that I might live unto God.

I am crucified with Christ; yet I live, though no longer I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave up himself for me.

I do not frustate the grace of God: for if righteousness be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

As Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness:

And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the gentiles through faith, preached the gospel to Abraham long ago, saying, "In thee shall all nations be blessed."

And that by the law no one is justified before God is evident; for it is written "The just shall live by faith:"

This then I say, that the law, which was given four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the covenant, which was so long before confirmed by God unto Christ, to make void the promise.

For if the inheritance be from the law, it is no more from the promise: whereas God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Now a mediator is not the mediator of one only; and God is but one.

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? not at all: for if a law had been given, which could have confered life, certainly righteousness would have been by the law.

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son born of a woman made under the law,

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

So that thou art no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ.

But then indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which in reality are no gods.

But now that ye know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that ye turn again to the poor weak elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage as before?

and my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected me for it; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

But it is good to be zealously affected always in that which is good, and not only when I am present with you.

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

heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and the like: of which I forewarn you, as I have also told you before, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

And let him, that is instructed in the word, communicate in all good things to him that instructeth.

Be not deceived, God is not to be mocked: for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

And let us not be weary in doing good: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

And therefore as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the houshold of faith.

But God forbid that I should glory, unless in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

And as many as shall walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be on them, even upon all the Israel of God.