And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.

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

So, then, the law was our pedagogue that led us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But I say, that the heir, as long as he is a minor, differs in no respect from a servant, though he is owner of all;

that he might buy off those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption.

now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

You know that through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first:

How great, then, was your blessedness! For I testify for you, that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes, and have given them to me.

They are ardently attached to you, but not honorably; in deed, they desire to exclude us, that you may be ardently attached to them.

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; one by a bondmaid, and one by a free woman.

These things are allegorized: for these women are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai that brings forth for bondage, which is Hagar.

For it is written: Rejoice you barren, that do not bear: break forth and cry aloud, you that travail not: for many more are the children of the deserted, than of her that had the husband of the deserted.

But as then, he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was born ac cording to the Spirit, so even now.

Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

I testify indeed again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to do the whole law.

You that are justified by law, have withdrawn from Christ: you have fallen from grace.

For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith that works by love.

This readiness to be persuaded is not from him that calls you.

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will cultivate no other disposition: but he that troubles you, who ever he may be, shall bear his condemnation.

that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!

For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

Let him that is instructed in the word share with his instructor in all good things.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that also shall he reap.

For he that sows for his flesh shall from the flesh, reap corruption; but he that sows for his spirit shall from the Spirit reap life eternal.

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

For not even do those very men, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints that are in Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

according as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

for a dispensation at the fullness of the times, in order that he might bring together for himself all things in the Christ, both those which are in the heavens, and those which are on earth;

that we should be for the praise of his glory; even we, who before had hope in the Christ:

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the acknowledgment of him,

that, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the glorious riches of his inheritance in the saints,

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

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:

that he might show, in the ages to come, the exceeding riches of his grace by his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

For we are his workman ship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.

For which reason, remember that you were formerly Gen tiles, by natural descent, and that you are called Uncircumcision by the Circumcision; so called, from a mark made in the flesh by hands;

that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and having no God in the world:

For he is our peace, who has made both parties one, and broken down the partition wall that separated us,

having abolished, in his flesh, the cause of enmity, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might, by himself, form the two into one new man, thus making peace;

and that he might reconcile both, in one body, to God, through the cross, having by it put to death the cause of enmity;

that by revelation was made known to me the mystery, (as I briefly wrote above,

so that, when you read, you can see my understanding in the mystery of the Christ,)

that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in the Christ, through the gospel,

to me, who am by far the least of all the saints, has this grace been given, that I might preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

to the end that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known, through the church, to the principalities and authorities in the heavenly regions,

that he may grant to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be mightily strengthened by his Spirit in the inner man,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through the faith;

that, being rooted and founded in love, you may be fully able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and hight,

and to know the love of the Christ that passes our knowledge, that you may be filled with aft the fullness of God.

Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to his power which works in us,

But this He ascended what does it mean, but that he also descended into the lower earthly regions?

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

till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature that fully develops the Christ;

that we might no longer be children, tossed and carried about by every wind of teaching, through the artifice of men, through craftiness used by them for the deliberate planning of deceit;

This I say, therefore, and appeal to you solemnly in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other Gentiles walk, in the error of their minds,

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to licentiousness, that they may work all manner of uncleanness with greediness.

that, as to your former life, you put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to its deceitful desires,

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Let him that steals, steal no more: but rather let labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that has need.

Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:

For you know this, that no lewd nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.

for it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by them in secret.

But all these works, when reproved, are made manifest by the light: for every thing that makes manifest is light.

Wherefore, the scripture says: Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

See, then, that you walk circumspectly, not as unwise, but as wise men,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word,

in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

knowing that whatever good any one does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he is a servant or a freeman.

And you masters, do the same things to them, leaving off threatening, knowing that you yourselves have a master in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the wiles of the devil:

Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand them in the evil day, and having overcome them all, to stand firm.

and having your feet shod with that preparation for defense supplied by the gospel of peace;

and for me, that speech may be given me, in opening my mouth with boldness, that I may make known the mystery of the gospel,

for which I am an ambassador in chains, that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

But that you, also, may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known all things to you;

him I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our affairs, and that he may comfort your hearts.

PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you, will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ;

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

in order that you may distinguish things that differ, to the end that you may be pure and blameless till the day of Christ,

But I wish you to know, brethren, that the things which have befallen me have turned out rather to the advancement of the gospel;

so that my bonds which are for Christ have become known to be such in all the palace, and in all other places;

These do it from love, because they know that I am set for the defense of the gospel;

those preach Christ from a contentious disposition, not sincerely, thinking that they will add affliction to my bonds.

for I know that this will result in my benefit through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but with all boldness, as at all times, so even now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

And of this I feel assured, that I shall remain and continue among you all for your advancement and joy in the faith,

that your rejoicing in Christ Jesus may be come more abundant through me by my being present among you again.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Christ, that, whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

since you have the same conflict that you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

fulfill my joy, that you be of the same mind, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind;

For which reason God has highly exalted him, and, also, bestowed on him a name that is above every name;