For, not through law, was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but it was through the righteousness of faith.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

who, past hope, believed against hope, to the end that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So shall your seed be."

neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children; but, "In Isaac shall your seed be called."

That is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger."

And it shall be that in the place where it was said, 'Ye are not My people,' there shall they be called sons of the living God."

And, as Isaiah has said before: "Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and been made like to Gomorrah."

I say, then, did God cast off His people? It could not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

recompensing to no one evil for evil; providing things honorable in the sight of all men;

But you??hy do you judge your brother? or you also??hy do you despise your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.

For it has been written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning will I set aside."

For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

If, then, ye have tribunals pertaining to this life, do ye set those to judge who are set at nought in the assembly?

Neither become ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it has been written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

If one of the unbelieving invites you to a feast, and ye wish to go, whatsoever is set before you eat, asking no question because of conscience.

and, having given thanks, He broke it, and said, "This is My body which is for you; this do in remembrance of Me."

If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.

But, as it is, God did set the members, each one of them in the body, even as He willed.

And God, indeed, set some in the assembly: first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; after that, miracles; then, gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues.

Who delivered us out of so great a death, and will still deliver: on Whom we have set our hope, that He will also still deliver;

because we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those who are being saved, and in those who are perishing;

For we are not as the many, making merchandise of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

but we renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

because it is the God Who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," Who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

being pressed on every side, yet not cooped up; perplexed, yet not despairing;

(for we walk by faith and not by sight);

For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to the things which he practiced, whether good or evil.

And what agreement has a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

I say it not with the view to your condemnation; for I have said before that ye are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief; but we were in tribulation on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

So, although I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong, but that your earnest care on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God.

for we provide things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But I sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that even as I said, ye may be prepared;

And He Who supplieth seed to the sower, and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they Abraham's seed? so am I.

And He hath said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for My power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as if present at the second time, and, being now absent, I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all the rest; that, if I come again, I will not spare;

As we have said before, even now also I say again, if any one is delivering a Gospel to you, contrary to that which ye received, let him be accursed.

But, when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother's womb, and called me through His grace,

But, when I saw that they were not walking uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as do the gentiles, and not as the Jews, how do you compel the gentiles to live as do the Jews?"

I do not set aside the grace of God; for, if righteousness is through law, then Christ died needlessly!

O foolish Galatians! Who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his Seed. He saith not, "And to seeds," as of many; but as of One, "and to your Seed"; which is Christ.

What, then, is the law? It was added because of the transgressions, until the Seed should come to Whom it had been promised; having been arranged through angels in the hand of a mediator.

And, if ye are Christ's, ye are, consequently, Abraham's seed, and heirs according to promise.

envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, as I also said before, that those practicing such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.

and raised us up with Him, and made us sit with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus;

and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and delivered Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell.

the one, from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the Gospel;

But I have all, and abound; I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, an odor of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as that the day of the Lord has set in.

This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

For to this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, Who is Savior of all men, especially of believers.

Now she that is really a widow, and left alone, has set her hope on God, and continues in supplications and prayers, night and day.

having condemnation, because they set aside their first faith.

Charge those who are rich in this present age, not to be high-minded, nor to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, Who giveth us richly all things for enjoyment;

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my Gospel;

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always false, evil beasts, idle gluttons."

But, if he wronged you in anything, or owes you anything, set down this to my account.

Who, being an effulgence of His glory and an exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

For to whom of the angels said He at any time, "You are My Son; I this day have begotten you?" And again, "I will be to him a Father; and He shall be to me a Son?"

But to whom of the angels hath He ever said, "Sit on My right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"

Thou madest him a little less than angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honor; and didst set him over the works of Thy hands;

For surely He doth not succor angels, but He succoreth Abraham's seed.

Wherefore, I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They do always err in their heart, and they did not know My ways;

while it is said, "To-day, if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation."

For we who believed do enter into rest, even as He said, "As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest; although the works were finished from the founding of a world."

again He designateth a certain day, "To-day" (saying in David, after so long a time, as has been before said), "To-day, if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts."

that, through two immutable facts, in which it is impossible that God should lie, we may have strong encouragement, who fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us;

(for they, indeed, have been made priests without an oath; but He with an oath through Him Who said to Him, "The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest forever");

Now as a main point to the things being spoken, we have such a High Priest, Who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven,

having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which was a golden pot containing the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

and over it Cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which things we cannot now speak in detail.

Then said I, 'Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it has been written concerning Me), to do Thy will, O God.'"

then hath He said, "Lo, I have come to do Thy will." He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second:

but This Man, having offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

And the Holy Spirit also testifieth to us; for after He had said,

Anyone, having set aside Moses' law, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses;

For we know Him Who said, To Me belongs vengeance; I will recompense," saith the Lord; and again, "The Lord will judge His people."

By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, even when past the age of child-bearing, since she accounted Him faithful, Who promised.

to whom it was said, "In Isaac shall your seed be called;"

looking away to the Author and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus; Who, in consideration of the joy lying before Him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

and so terrible was the appearance, Moses said, "I am exceedingly frightened and in fear!"

Let your disposition be without fondness for money; content with the present things; for He Himself hath said, "I will in nowise leave you, neither will I in any wise forsake you."

make you perfect in every good thing to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be the glory forever. Amen.

Know ye that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

and ye show regard to him who is wearing the splendid apparel, and say, "Sit here in a good place"; and say to the poor man, "Stand, or sit under my footstool";

For He Who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not kill." Now, if you do not commit adultery, but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.

And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity! the tongue is placed among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of life, and is set on fire by Hell.

Does the fountain send forth, from the same opening, the sweet water and the bitter,

My brethren, can a fig tree produce olives; or a vine, figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the word of God, that lives and abides.

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.

For this escapes them willingly, that there were heavens of old, and an earth set together out of water, and through water, by the word of God:

Wherefore, beloved, since ye are looking for these things, give diligence that ye be found in peace, without spot and blameless in His sight.

Whosoever has been begotten of God sins not; because His seed abides in him, and he cannot sin because he has been begotten of God.

For there crept in stealthily certain men, who of old were set forth for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into lasciviousness; and denying the only Master and our Lord Jesus Christ.