Hence anyone who eats the bread or drinks from the Lord's cup in a way that is unworthy of it will be guilty of profaning the body and the blood of the Lord.

For anyone who eats and drinks, eats and drinks a judgment upon himself if he does not recognize the body.

Therefore, I must tell you that no one who is speaking under the influence of the Spirit of God ever says, "Curse Jesus!" and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord!" without being under the influence of the holy Spirit.

and forms of service vary, but it is the same Lord who is served,

and activities vary, but God who produces them all in us all is the same.

For anyone who speaks ecstatically is speaking not to men but to God, for no one can understand him, though he is uttering secret truths.

Anyone who speaks ecstatically does himself good, but the inspired preacher does a congregation good.

I want you all to speak ecstatically, but I especially want you to be inspired to preach. The man who is inspired to preach is more useful than the one who speaks ecstatically??nless he can explain what he says so that it may do the church some good.

If the bugle does not sound a clear call, who will prepare for battle?

So if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall seem to the man who is speaking to be a foreigner, and he will seem to me to be one too.

Therefore, the man who can speak ecstatically should pray for the power to explain what he says.

So this ecstatic speaking is meant as a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers, but inspired preaching is a sign not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

And let two or three who are inspired to preach speak, while the rest weigh what is said;

and if anything is revealed to another who is seated, the one who is speaking must stop.

After that he was seen by more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have fallen asleep.

Yes, and those who have fallen asleep in trust in Christ have perished.

But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him.

for everything is to be reduced to subjection and put under Christ's feet. But when it says that everything is subject to him, he is evidently excepted who reduced it all to subjection to him.

And when everything is reduced to subjection to him, then the Son himself will also become subject to him who has reduced everything to subjection to him, so that God may be everything to everyone.

Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven,

Now I urge you, brothers??ou know that the family of Stephanas was the first to be converted in Greece, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of God's people??16 I want you to enlist under such leaders, and under anyone who joins with you and works hard.

A curse upon anyone who has no love for the Lord. Lord, come quickly!

He comforts me in all my trouble, so that I can comfort people who are in any trouble with the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

Why, I felt in my heart that the end must be death. That was to keep me from relying on myself instead of on God, who can even raise the dead.

The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus, Timothy, and I, you have not found wavering between "Yes" and "No." With him it has always been "Yes,"

But it is God who guarantees us and you to Christ; he has anointed us

For if I hurt your feelings, who is there to cheer me up but the man whose feelings I hurt?

This is what I said in my letter, so that I might avoid coming and having my feelings hurt by the very people who might have been expected to make me happy, for I felt sure about you all, that what made me happy would make you all happy.

Yes, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, diffused among those who are being saved, and those who are perishing alike;

to the one, a deathly, deadly odor, to the other a vital, life-giving one. Who is qualified for this task? I am!

not like Moses, who used to wear a veil over his face, to keep the Israelites from gazing at the fading of the splendor from it.

And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

If the meaning of my preaching of the good news is veiled at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.

For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, that is on the face of Christ.

In the same spirit of faith as his who said, "I believed, and so I spoke," I too believe, and so I speak,

sure that he who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise me also like Jesus, and bring me side by side with you into his presence.

For I who am still in my tent sigh with anxiety, because I do not want to be stripped of it, but to put on the other over it, so that what is only mortal may be absorbed in life.

It is God himself who has prepared me for this change, and he has given me the Spirit as his guaranty.

I am not trying to recommend myself to you again. I am giving you cause to be proud of me, to use in answering men who pride themselves on external advantages and not on sincerity of heart.

and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

All this comes from God, who through Christ has reconciled me to himself, and has commissioned me to proclaim this reconciliation??19 how God through Christ reconciled the world to himself, refusing to count men's offenses against them, and intrusted me with the message of reconciliation.

He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted me by the coming of Titus,

but to equalize the burden, and in the present situation to have your plenty make up for what they need, so that some day their plenty may make up for what you need, and so things may be made equal??15 as the Scripture says, "The man who got much did not have too much, and the man who got little did not have too little."

I am sending with him his brother, who is famous in all the churches for his work in spreading the good news.

Remember this: The man who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and the man who sows generously will reap generously.

Everyone must give what he has made up his mind to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion; God loves a man who is glad to give.

He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.

I appeal to you personally, by the gentleness and forbearance of Christ??he Paul who is so humble when face to face with you, but so bold in dealing with you when he is far away!

I beg you not to make me take as bold an attitude when I come, as I count on taking toward some people who suspect me of acting from worldly motives.

I do not indeed venture to class or compare myself with certain individuals who approve of themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they do not show good sense.

It is no strain for me to do this, as it might be for people who had never got so far, for I was the first to come all the way to you with the good news of the Christ.

But let the man who boasts, boast about the Lord.

For it is not the man who approves of himself who is really approved; it is the man of whom the Lord approves.

And I shall go on doing as I do, so as to cut the ground from under those who want to make out that in their boasted apostleship they work on the same terms that I do.

Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is forever blessed, knows that I am telling the truth.

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.

Those who have kept on in their old sins and all the rest I have warned, and I warn them now while I am still away, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will spare nobody??3 since you demand proof that Christ really speaks through me. He is not weak in dealing with you. On the contrary, right among you he exhibits his power.

Paul, an apostle not from men nor sent by any man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead??2 and all the brothers who are here with me, to the churches of Galatia;

who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.

And when God, who had set me apart from my birth and had called me in his mercy, saw fit

or going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

they only heard people say, "The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the good news of the faith he tried to destroy,"

to gratify the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who sneaked in to spy upon the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery again.

Those who were regarded as the leaders??hat they once were makes no difference to me; God takes no account of external differences??he leaders contributed nothing new to me.

On the contrary, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been intrusted with it for the Jews??8 for he who actuated Peter to be an apostle to the Jews also actuated me to be one to the heathen??9 and when they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, pledged Barnabas and me their co-operation, with the understanding that we should work among the heathen and they among the Jews.

We who are Jews by birth, and not sinful heathen,

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

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

You senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, when you had Jesus Christ shown crucified right before your eyes?

For there is a curse upon all who rely on obedience to the Law, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who does not stand by everything that is written in the Book of the Law and obey it."

and the Law has nothing to do with faith; it teaches that it is the man who does these things that will find life by doing them.

Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")

But the Scripture describes all mankind as the prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing might on the ground of faith in Jesus Christ be given to those who have faith.

For all of you who have been baptized into union with Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might receive adoption.

my children??ou for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.

Tell me this, you who want to be subject to law: Will you not listen to the Law?

For the Scripture says, "Rejoice, childless woman, who bear no children, Break into shouting, you who have no birth pains! For the desolate woman has more children than the married one!"

So, brothers, we are children not of a slave but of one who is free.

I insist again to any man who lets himself be circumcised, that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law.

You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.

You were making such progress! Who has stopped your obeying the truth?

That kind of persuasion never came from him who called you!

I am confident in the Lord that you will not take a different view. The man who is unsettling you will have to pay the penalty for it, no matter who he is.

I wish the people who are upsetting you would go on, and have themselves emasculated!

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings.

Those who are taught the message must share all their goods with their teacher.

The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to those who belong to the family of the faith.

These men who are trying to force you to let yourselves be circumcised want to present a good appearance externally, to save themselves from having to stand persecution for the cross of Jesus the Christ.

Why, even those who let themselves be circumcised do not observe the Law themselves! But they want you to let yourselves be circumcised so that they can boast of that physical fact about you!

Peace and mercy be on all who will follow this rule, and on the true Israel of God.

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, to God's people who are steadfast in Christ Jesus;

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.

and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,