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

which is not another, except there are some who confuse you, and who want to pervert the good-news of the Christ.

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

For I make known to you, brothers, the good-news that was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood,

But I did not see another of the apostles except James the Lord's brother.

Now what I write to you, behold before God, I do not lie.

But not even Titus with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, so that the truth of the good-news might continue with you.

But from those who were reputed to be something (what kind they were formerly, it makes no difference to me, God does not accept a personage of man), for those who were of repute added nothing to me,

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly toward the truth of the good-news, I said to Peter before all, If thou being a Jew, live as a Gentile and not as a Jew, why do thou compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?

We are Jews by nature and not sinful men of the Gentiles,

knowing that a man is not made righteous from works of law, instead through faith of Jesus Christ. And we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made righteous from faith of Christ, and not from works of law, because no fles

But if, while seeking to be made righteous in Christ, we ourselves were also found sinful, then is Christ an aide of sin? May it not happen!

I do not disregard the grace of God, for if righteousness is through law, then Christ died in vain.

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was earlier described among you, crucified?

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

And the law is not from faith, but the man who does them will live in them.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, And to the seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, who is Christ.

And I say this, a covenant previously confirmed by God in Christ, the law, which happened four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul in order to make the promise useless.

Now a mediator is not of one, but God is one.

Is the law therefore against the promises of God? May it not happen! For if a law was given that could make alive, truly righteousness would be from law.

But of course not knowing God then, ye were in bondage to those in nature who are not gods,

And ye did not disdain, nor did ye reject my trial in my flesh, but ye received me as an agent of God, as Christ Jesus.

They are zealous for you but not honorably. They want to exclude you, so that ye may be zealous for them.

But to be zealous of is always good in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Tell me those desiring to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren woman not giving birth. Burst forth and shout, thou not suffering birth pains, because many more are the children of the desolate than of her who has the husband.

Nevertheless, what does the scripture say? Send away the servant girl and her son, for the son of the servant girl will, no, not inherit with the son of the freewoman.

So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant girl, but of the freewoman.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

Ye were running well. Who hindered you, not to obey the truth?

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

For ye, brothers, were called to liberty, only not liberty for an opportunity to the flesh, but be servants to each other through love.

But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.

But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.

But if ye are led by Spirit ye are not under law.

envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Let us not become conceited, provoking each other, envying each other.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.

Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap.

And let us not be weary doing good, for in our own time we will reap, not desponding.

As many as desire to make a good impression in flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Christ.

For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.

But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.