PAUL an apostle ??not appointed by men nor commissioned by any man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead, ??2 with all the brothers who are beside me, to the churches of Galatia;

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

I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

no man put it into my hands, no man taught me what it meant, I had it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

If it is discovered that in our quest for justification in Christ we are 'sinners' as well as the Gentiles, does that make Christ an agent of sin? Never!

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

I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you ??you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

that the blessing of Abraham might reach the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

Now the Promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it is not said, 'and to your offsprings' in the plural, but in the singular and to your offspring ??which is Christ.

but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

(for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ).

There is no room for Jew or Greek, there is no room for slave or freeman, there is no room for male and female; you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Now if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring; in virtue of the Promise, you are heirs.

and though my flesh was a trial to you, you did not scoff at me nor spurn me, you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus. You congratulated yourselves.

O my dear children, you with whom I am in travail over again till Christ be formed within you,

with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

Here, listen to Paul! I tell you, if you get circumcised, Christ will be no use to you.

You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

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