Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

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

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

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

But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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

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

If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

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

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you --

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.