who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,

for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.

And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,

for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,

for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;

for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law -- then Christ died in vain.

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'

Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

for if by law be the inheritance, it is no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant it.

the law, then, is against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

they are zealous for you -- yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,

but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise;

which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;

for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children,

and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,

for it hath been written, 'Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'

but what saith the Writing? 'Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'

then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

for if any one doth think himself to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

for each one his own burden shall bear.

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;

Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body do bear.