grace unto you, and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ;

who gave himself for our sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

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.

For ye have heard of my former manner of life, when I professed Judaism, that in the most outrageous manner I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

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

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

And they glorified God on my behalf.

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;

For if seeking to be justified by Christ, we also ourselves should be found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? God forbid.

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I should live unto God.

I am crucified with Christ, yet I live; though no more I, but Christ liveth in me: and my present life in the flesh, is a life by faith in the Son of God, who hath loved me, and delivered up himself for me.

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

as Abraham believed in God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness.

And the scripture foreseeing that by faith God would justify the Gentiles, preached the gospel before unto Abraham, saying, that "In thee shall all the nations be blessed."

But that by the law no man is justified before God is evident: because "The just by faith shall live."

Now this I say, the covenant confirmed of God to Christ, the law, which was given three hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, so as to vacate the promise.

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

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

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had been a law given which was capable of procuring life, verily righteousness would have been by the law.

For ye are all the sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

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

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

Therefore thou art no more a slave, but a son, and if a son, an heir also of God through Christ.

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

But now after having known God, or rather being known of God, how turn ye back again to those weak and beggarly elements, to which again a second time ye desire to be in bondage?

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.

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

I wish that they who trouble you were cut off from you.

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 him who is a learner of the word communicate to his instructor in all good things.

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

Well then, whilst we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, but especially unto those who are of the household of faith.

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

And as many as shall walk after this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.