For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.

And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed.

For not that ease to others, and pressure to you:

But of equality, now in this time your abundance for their want, that also their abundance be for your want: that there be equality:

For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more.

And I sent the brethren, lest our boasting for you be empty in this part; that, as I said, ye might be prepared:

Lest if in some way the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed, (that we should not say, ye) in this principle of boasting.

Therefore I thought necessary to beseech the brethren that they go before to you, and prepare beforehand your praise, having been proclaimed beforehand, this same to be prepared, so as praise, and not as covetousness.

See ye things according to the face? If any has persuaded himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this again of himself, that, as he of Christ, so we also of Christ.

Let such a one reckon this, that, such as we are in the word by the epistles, being away, such also, being present, in deed.

Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously?

And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we.

Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little.

I speak according to dishonour, as that we were weak. And in what any dares, (I speak in rashness,) I dare also.

God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows, he being praised forever, that I lie not.

That he was carried off into paradise, and heard words not to be told, which it was not permitted man to speak.

And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up.

For this thrice besought I the Lord, that it remove away from me.

And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.

For what is it which ye were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself acted not with negligence to you? favor me for this injustice.

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up.

I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:

Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?

And I hope that ye shall know that we are not untried.

And I pray to God that ye do nothing evil; not that we appear tried, but that ye do good, and we be as untried.

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

Having given himself for our sins, that he might take us away out of this present evil time, according to the will of God and our Father:

I wonder that so quickly are ye transferred from him having called you by the grace of Christ to another good news:

But also if we, or a messenger from heaven, announce good news to you, more than what: we have announced to you, let him be anathema.

But I make known to you, brethren, the good news announced by me that it is not according to man.

For ye heard of my turning about when in Judaism, that in excess I drove out the church of God, and laid it waste:

To reveal his Son in me, that I might announce him the good news in the nations; I consulted not with flesh and blood:

And what I write to you, behold, before God, that I lie not.

And only they had heard, That he then driving us out, now announces the good news, the faith which he then felt the absence of.

And through false brethren introduced privately, who came in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might reduce us to slavery:

To whom we yielded in subjection, not for an hour; that the truth of the good news might remain with you.

But on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of uncircumcision, as Peter of circumcision;

And having known the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, seeming to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hands of communion; that we for the nations, and they for the circumcision.

Only that we remember the poor; and this same was I forward to do.

And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him; so that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

But when I saw that they went not upon the strait road according to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest according to the nations, and not according to the Jews, why forcest thou the nations to live as the Jews?

Knowing that a man is not justified from the works of the law, but through faith of Jesus Christ, and we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified from the faith of Christ, and not from the works of the law: therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

For I through the law died to the law, that. I might live to God.

Know ye therefore that they of faith, these are sons of Abraham.

And the writing, foreseeing that of faith God justifies the nations, announced beforehand the good news to Abraham, That in thee shall all nations be praised.

So that they of faith are praised with faithful Abraham.

And that none is justified in the law before God, is manifest: for, The just shall live of faith.

That the praise of Abraham might be to the nations in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

But the writing shut up all things under sin, that the promise from faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believing.

So that the law was our preceptor towards Christ, that we might be justified from faith.

That he might redeem them under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

So that thou art no more a servant, but a son: and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

And ye know that through weakness of the flesh I announced the good news to you before.

What then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that, if possible, having plucked out your eyes, ye would have given to me.

They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.

For it has been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondmaid, and one by the free.

For it has been written, Be cheered, O barren, bearing not; break out and cry, she travailing not: for many more the children of the desolate than she having a husband.

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

And again to any man circumcised, I testify, that he is debtor to do the whole law.

I have trusted to you in the Lord, that ye will have nothing different in mind; and he troubling you shall bear judgment, whoever he be.

And if ye bite and devour one another, see ye that ye be not laid waste by one another.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do.

Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap.

For neither they being circumcised themselves observe the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they might boast in your flesh.

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in his knowledge:

Above every beginning, and authority, and power, and property, and every name named, not only in this life, but in that about to be:

That he might show in times coming the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,

Wherefore remember, that ye then the nations in the flesh, being reckoned Uncircumcision by the Circumcision in the flesh reckoned made by hands;

That ye were in that time without Christy alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners from the covenants of solemn promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

The enmity in his flesh, the law of commands in enactments, having left unemployed; that he might create in himself one new man, making peace;

And that he might reconcile anew both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the eninity in it:

That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly,

That it might now be made known to beginnings and powers in the heavenlies by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

That he might give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the interior man;

That ye might be fully able to comprehend with all the holy what the length, and breadth, and depth, and height;

To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God.

(And so having ascended, what is it except that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

He having descended is the same having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill up all things.)

That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,

He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need.

Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.

For this ye are knowing, that every fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word,

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless.

But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth.

Knowing that whatever good each might do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or free.

And, lords, do ye the same things to them, letting go threatening: knowing that also your own Lord is in the heavens; and distinction of persons is not with him.

For this take up the complete armor of God, that ye might be able to withstand in the evil day, and having effected all things, to stand.

And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news,

For which I am an ambassador in perplexity: that in it I might speak freely, as I ought to speak.

And that ye also might know the things concerning me, what I do, Tychicus will make all things known to you, the dearly beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord:

Whom I sent to you for this same, that ye might know the things concerning us, and he might comfort your hearts.

Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:

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

For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ;

And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things. concerning me have rather gone to the advancement of the good news;