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

For, do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? or do I strive to please men? If, indeed, I would still please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

for neither did I receive it from man, nor was it taught me, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

For you have heard of my former mode of life in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste;

and I surpassed in Judaism many of my own age and nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the tradition of my fathers.

to whom we yielded in submission, not even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

(for he who gave efficiency to Peter, for the apostleship of the circumcision, gave efficiency to me also, as an apostle for the Gentiles,)

For, before certain persons came from James, he ate- with the Gentiles: but, when they had come, he withdrew, and separated himself, because he feared those who were of the circumcision.

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found sinners, is Christ, there fore, the minister of sin? It can not be.

For if I build again those things which I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

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

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

I do not set aside the grace of God: for if righteousness be through law, then Christ has died in vain.

even as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

For the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached beforehand the gospel to Abraham, saying: In you shall all the nations be blessed.

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

But that no one is justified by law in the sight of God, is evident: for the just by faith shall live.

Christ has bought us off from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us: (for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:)

And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance be by law, it is no longer by promise: but God bestowed it on Abraham by promise.

Now, a mediator for one is impossible; but God is one.

Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It can not be. For if a law had been given which could have given life, surely righteousness would have been by law.

for you are all the sons of God, by faith in Christ Jesus:

for as many of you as have been immersed into Christ, have put on Christ.

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

fear for you, lest I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.

How great, then, was your blessedness! For I testify for you, that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes, and have given them to me.

My little children, for whom I again suffer the pains of gestation, till Christ be formed in you,

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am in doubt concerning you.

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; one by a bondmaid, and one by a free woman.

But the one by the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; the other, by the free woman, was by promise.

These things are allegorized: for these women are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai that brings forth for bondage, which is Hagar.

For Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage with her children.

But Jerusalem which is above is free; and she is the mother of us all.

For it is written: Rejoice you barren, that do not bear: break forth and cry aloud, you that travail not: for many more are the children of the deserted, than of her that had the husband of the deserted.

But what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman.

Therefore, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free- woman.

Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage.

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

For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith that works by love.

For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.

For all the law is fulfilled in one commandment, in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would.

For if any one think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself:

for each one shall bear his own burden.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that also shall he reap.

For he that sows for his flesh shall from the flesh, reap corruption; but he that sows for his spirit shall from the Spirit reap life eternal.

Let us not become weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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

For not even do those very men, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision is any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Henceforward let no one give me trouble: for I bear in my body the wounds which I received on account of the Lord Jesus.