who gave himself for our sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

I marvel that ye are so quickly departed from him that called you, by the grace of Christ into another gospel

But though even we, or an angel from heaven, preach unto you another gospel, different from that which we have preached to you, let him be an anathema.

As we have before spoken, and I now repeat it again, If any man preach a gospel different from that ye have received, let him be anathema.

But I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not a merely human ministry.

For ye have heard of my former manner of life, when I professed Judaism, that in the most outrageous manner I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach the glad tidings of him to the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

only they had heard, that he who persecuted us in time past, now preaches the faith which he once laid waste.

And I went up then by revelation, and laid before them that gospel which I preach among the Heathen, but in private conference with those who were of the first importance, that haply I might not run, nor had run in vain.

but this I did because of false brethren artfully introduced, who came to pry into our liberty which we hold in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

to whom not even for an hour have we yielded subjection, that the truth of the gospel might abide with you.

but contrariwise when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcision, as Peter was to the circumcision:

(for he that wrought powerfully by Peter in his apostolic mission to the circumcision, wrought mightily also by me among the Gentiles.)

And when they knew the grace which was bestowed on me, James and Cephas and John, who appeared to be the pillars [of the church], gave unto me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision:

only desiring that we would remember the poor??he very thing which I have also been diligent to perform.

And the other Jews were guilty of the same dissimulation with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

But when I saw that they walked not directly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to judaize?

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law; because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

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

O INFATUATED Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth? To whom Jesus Christ has been described, as before your eyes, crucified among you.

Know then that they who are of faith, these are the children of Abraham.

And the scripture foreseeing that by faith God would justify the Gentiles, preached the gospel before unto Abraham, saying, that "In thee shall all the nations be blessed."

But that by the law no man is justified before God is evident: because "The just by faith shall live."

Now the law is not by faith: but "The man that doeth these things shall live by them."

that unto the Gentiles the benediction pronounced on Abraham might come by Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

To what end then was the law given? It was given on account of transgressions, until that seed should come to whom the promise was made, being delivered through the ministry of angels into the hand of a mediator.

But the scripture hath shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But before the faith came, we were in ward under the law, shut up together for the faith that should be revealed.

Wherefore the law was our conductor, as of children, to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

NOW I affirm, that as long as the heir is an infant, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be master of all;

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

But at that time when ye knew not God, ye served those who by nature are not gods.

Ye know that with infirmity of flesh I preached to you the gospel at the first.

What then was your blessedness, for I bear witness to you that, if it were possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and given them to me.

They affect zeal for you, not honourably; but they wish to exclude us, that you may be zealously attached to them.

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free.

Now the son of the bond-maid was born after the flesh, but that by the free woman was by promise.

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

For it is written, "Rejoice, thou barren who bearest not, cry out and shout for joy, thou that travailest not, for more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her which had an husband."

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so is it now.

Behold, I Paul declare to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

And again, I testify to every man who is circumcised, that he is under an obligation to keep the whole law.

Ye were running well: who hath hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be no otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear condign punishment whosoever he be.

I wish that they who trouble you were cut off from you.

For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed by one another.

For the flesh hath appetites contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these act in opposition the one to the other: so that ye do not the things which ye would.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

BRETHREN, if a man also be surprised into any act of offence, ye that are spiritual, replace such a one in the spirit of meekness; keeping an attentive eye on thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

For if any man conceits that he is something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Be not deceived; God is not to be trifled with: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

For he that soweth unto his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption, and he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

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

For even they who are themselves circumcised do not keep the law, but desire you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world,