to the churches of Galatia, Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins,

To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

For do I now satisfy men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

For neither did I receive it from man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

For ye have heard of my behaviour in time past in the Jewish religion, that above measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it.

(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, wrought likewise effectually in me toward the Gentiles:

For before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

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

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

I do not make void the grace of God; for if righteousness is by the law, then Christ died in vain.

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

So then they who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse;

for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all the things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.

But that none is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident; for the just shall live by faith.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: (for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

And this I say, the covenant which was before confirmed of God through Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

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

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

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have laboured upon you in vain.

Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am; for I also am as ye were: ye have not injured me at all.

For I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.

I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

For it is written, Abraham had two sons, one by the bond-woman, another by the free-woman.

And he of the bond-woman was born after the flesh, but he of the free-woman by promise.

Which things are an allegory; for these are the two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Agar.

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem that now is, and is in bondage with her children.

But Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

(For it is written, Rejoice thou barren, that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not; for the desolate hath many more children than she that hath an husband.

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

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage.

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, he is a debtor to do the whole law.

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.

Brethren, ye have been called to liberty: only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

For the flesh desireth against the Spirit, but the Spirit desireth against the flesh (these are contrary to each other) that ye may not do the things which ye would.

For if any man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

For every man shall bear his own burden.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap.

For he that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

But let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised: only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

For neither they who are circumcised keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

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

From henceforth let none trouble me; for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.