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,

as he hath elected us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love:

to the praise of the glory of his grace, whereby he hath made us acceptable in that beloved one;

that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first had hope in Christ.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation by the knowledge of him;

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he hath called you, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance for the saints,

far above all principality, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come;

which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

That he might shew forth in the ages to come the transcendent riches of his grace, in the kindness shewed to us in Christ Jesus.

for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God hath before prepared us, that we should walk therein.

Wherefore remember that ye in time past were Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision made by hands in the flesh;

that ye were at that time without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and atheists in the world:

destroying the enmity in his flesh, even the law of precepts, in ordinances, that he might from the two create in himself one new man, making peace,

if so be, that ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you:

that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote unto you before briefly;

that the Gentiles should be co-heirs, and of the same body, and sharers with them of his promise in Christ by the Gospel:

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

and to make all men see what the communication of that mystery means, which was hid from the beginning in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly regions, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church,

Wherefore I beseech you, that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

that he would give you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man;

that Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that rooted and grounded in love,

and to know the love of Christ, transcendently surpassing knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.

Now to him that is able to do above all things, exceeding abundantly, beyond what we ask or think, according to the power which effectually worketh in us;

I THEN, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,

Now this, that he ascended, what does it imply? but that he also first descended into the more internal parts of the earth?

He that descended is the same also, who ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

that we should be no longer infants, floating on the waves, and carried about with every wind of novel doctrine, by the juggling of men, by their craftiness after the delusive wiles of error;

This then I urge and testify in the Lord, that ye walk no more as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,

that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;

Let him that stole steal no more; but rather labour hard, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that is in want.

Let no loose discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for useful edification, that it may communicate grace to the hearers.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or impure person, or avaricious, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

Take heed, then, that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

that he might sanctify it, purifying it in the laver of water by the word,

that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having blemish, nor wrinkle, nor any such things; but that it may be holy and unblameable.

So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself.

Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.

that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived upon earth."

knowing that whatsoever good a man doeth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be a bondman, or whether he be free.

And ye masters, do the same things to them, avoiding menacing language: knowing that you also yourselves have a master in heaven; and there is no respect of persons with him.

Be clothed in the panoply of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Therefore take the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all things to stand.

and for me that there may be given unto me utterance to open my mouth with boldness, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

for which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

But that ye also may know the things which concern me, and what I am doing, Tychicus will inform you of the whole, a beloved brother, and faithful in the Lord:

whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

being confident of this very thing, that he who hath wrought in you the good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding;

that ye may prove the things that are excellent, in order that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ;

Now I wish you, brethren, to know, that the things which have befallen me have rather conduced to the progress of the gospel;

so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places;

but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel.

For I know that this shall issue in my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death.

But if it be his will, that I should live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my travail: and what to chuse I know not.

And being so persuaded, I know that I shall stay and continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith;

that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus for me by my coming again unto you.

Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;

and not dismayed on any occasion by your adversaries; which is indeed the proof of perdition to them, but of salvation to you, and that from God.

For this favour on the part of Christ is granted you, not only that ye should believe on him, but also that ye should suffer for his sake;

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may be united in sentiment, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind.

that to the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of beings celestial and terrestrial, and infernal;

and every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus [is] Messiah, to the glory of God the Father.

that ye may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, inoffensive, in the midst of an untoward and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world;