I begged Titus, and sent the brother with him: did Titus at all make gain of you? have we not walked in the same spirit? have we not in the same steps?

Ye have long been supposing that we excuse ourselves to you: we speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved, for your building up.

lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.

I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.

But if even we or an angel out of heaven announce as glad tidings to you anything besides what we have announced as glad tidings to you, let him be accursed.

As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one announce to you as glad tidings anything besides what ye have received, let him be accursed.

For ye have heard what was my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it;

and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of works of law nor but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on the principle of the faith of Christ; and not of works of law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be justified.

Now if in seeking to be justified in Christ we also have been found sinners, then is Christ minister of sin? Far be the thought.

For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again, I constitute myself a transgressor.

For I, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.

This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of the report of faith?

Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in vain?

but the law is not on the principle of faith; but, He that shall have done these things shall live by them.

For ye, as many as have been baptised unto Christ, have put on Christ.

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

Be as I am, for I also am as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

What then was your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given them to me.

So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?

my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.

Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated from him, as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.

I have confidence as to you in the Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt of it, whosoever he may be.

For ye have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.

So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.

See how long a letter I have written to you with my own hand.

As many as desire to have a fair appearance in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted because of the cross of Christ.

in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;

in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will,

that we should be to the praise of his glory who have pre-trusted in the Christ:

in whom ye also have trusted, having heard the word of the truth, the glad tidings of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Wherefore I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is in you, and the love which ye have towards all the saints,

For through him we have both access by one Spirit to the Father.

(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,

that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,

in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the faith of him.

I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called,

There is one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;

who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

But ye have not thus learnt the Christ,

if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as the truth is in Jesus;

Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption.

and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them,

Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;

whom I have sent to you for this very thing, that ye may know of our affairs and that he may encourage your hearts.

as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have me in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.

But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the glad tidings,

so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;

having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.

So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.

but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful.

Though I have my trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, I rather:

But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

But whereto we have attained, let us walk in the same steps.

Be imitators all together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

What ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now however at length ye have revived your thinking of me, though surely ye did also think of me, but lacked opportunity.

Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me I have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.

I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.

But ye have done well in taking part in my affliction.

But I have all things in full supply and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things sent from you, an odour of sweet savour, an acceptable sacrifice, agreeable to God.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love which ye have towards all the saints,

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;

because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

And he is the head of the body, the assembly; who is the beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that he might have the first place in all things:

if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul became minister.

For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ;

buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

(which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to the satisfaction of the flesh.

If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God:

have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth;

for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also do ye.

And let the peace of Christ preside in your hearts, to which also ye have been called in one body, and be thankful.

Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that he might know your state, and that he might encourage your hearts:

Aristarchus my fellow-captive salutes you, and Mark, Barnabas's cousin, concerning whom ye have received orders, (if he come to you, receive him,)

and Jesus called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These are the only fellow-workers for the kingdom of God who have been a consolation to me.

for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything;

but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.