PAUL, an apostle, (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,)

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

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

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

With respect to the things which I now write to you, behold, before God I lie not.

And they glorified God in me.

But from those who were supposed to be something; (what they were is a matter of no importance to me: God does not accept the person of man;) they, indeed, who were supposed to be something, communicated no additional truth to me;

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.

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

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:

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

So, then, you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God, through Christ.

But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods:

now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

and my trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or loathe; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

Let him that is instructed in the word share with his instructor in all good things.

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

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who are the household of the faith.

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