For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.

This happiness then upon circumcision, or upon uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for justice.

How then was it reckoned? to him being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

For if they of the law, heirs, faith was made void, and the promise left inactive:

And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God;

And made perfectly certain that, what was promised, he is able to do.

And therefore it was reckoned to him for justice.

And it was not written for him alone, that it was reckoned to him;

Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification.

(For until the law sin was in the world: and sin is not charged, being no law.

Therefore were we buried with him by immersion into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together, that the body of sin might be left inactive, for us no more to serve sin.

For he having died was justified from sin.

And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died.

And the command was found to me which for life, this for death.

Was then good death to me? It may not be. But sin, that it might appear sin, by the good working death in me; that sin might be sinful to excess by the command.

For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope,

For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

It was said to her, That the greater shall serve the less.

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

And Esaias is very confident, and says, I was found of them not seeking me; I was manifested to them not asking for me.

Lord, thy prophets have they killed, and dug down thine altars; and I alone was left, and they seek my soul.

For who knew the mind of the Lord? or who was his counsel?

For whatever before was written before are for our instruction was before written that by patience and consolation able of the writings we might have hope.

And so seeking the honour to announce the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon a strange foundation:

But as has been written, to whom it was not announced of him, they shall see: and they who have not heard shall understand.

Wherefore also I was hindered in many things from coming to you.

Embrace Tryphen a and Tryphosa, wearied in the Lord. Embrace Persis the beloved, who was much wearied in the Lord.

As the testimony of Jesus Christ was made firm in you:

For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you.

Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you? or in Paul's name were ye immersed

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing.

And I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much tremor, was with you.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.

Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, that ye may be a new mixture, as ye are unleavened. For also our pascha was sacrificed for us, Christ:

For the unbelieving husband was consecrated in the wife, and the unbelieving wife was consecrated in the husband: for then are our children unclean; and now are they holy.

Whoever was called circumcised? let him not be drawn to himself. Whoever was called in uncircumeision? let him not be circumcised.

Each in the calling which he was called, in this let him remain.

Each, in what he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.

The woman was bound by law for as much time as her husband lives; and if her husband be set to sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Or does he say altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us: that he ploughing ought to plough upon hope; and he grinding upon hope, to participate with his hope.

And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law;

And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock following; and the Rock was Christ.

But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert.

And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.

For also the man was not created through the woman; but the woman through the man.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night which he was delivered up, took bread:

When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child.

For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known.

And that he was buried, and that he was raised the third day, according to the writings.

And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:

Then was he seen by above five hundred brethren once for all; of whom the most remain till now, and some also are laid to rest.

Then was he seen by James; then by all the sent.

And last of all exactly as an abortive, was he also seen by me.

And by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which in me was not vain; but I was more abundantly wearied than they all: and not I, but the grace of God which with me.

For if the dead are not raised, neither was Christ raised up:

And if Christ was not raised up, your faith is vain; yet are ye in your sins.

And now Was Christ raised from the dead, he was the first fruits of those having died.

So also has been written, The first man Adam was born into a living soul; and the last Adam into a spirit making alive.

And when this corrupted shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be the word written, Death was swallowed down in victory.

And concerning Apollos, the brother, I besought him much that he would come to you with the brethren: and the will was not altogether that he should come now; and he will come when he should have leisure.

And God faithful, for our word to you was not yea or nay.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who proclaimed in you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but was yea in him.

And if the service of death, in letters imprinted in stones, was in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently to the face of Moses for the glory of his face; being left unemployed

For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.

And not only in his arrival, but also in the comfort which he was comforted in you, announcing to us your anxious desire, your lamentations, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth.

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.

As has been written, He to whom much, was not in excess; and he to whom little, was not diminished.

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.

Thrice was I scourged with rods, once was I stoned, thrice suffered I shipwreck, I have made a night and day in the deep;

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and I escaped from his hands.

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.

I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing.

Surely the signs of one sent was wrought in you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and powers.

For also if he was crucified from weakness, but he lives from the power of God. For also we are weak in him, but we live with him from the power of God to you.

For I neither received it from man, neither was I taught, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And when God was contented, having separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me, by his grace,

And was unknown by face to the churches of Judea there in Christ.

But neither Titus, with me, being a Greek, was forced to be circumcised:

(For be having been energetic in Peter for the mission of circumcision, was energetic also in me for the nations:)

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

And when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to the face, for he was to be rebuked.

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

O Unwise Galatians, who has cast a spell upon you, not to obey the truth, to whom before the eyes Jesus Christ was written beforehand, crucified in you?

As Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.

What then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, (till the seed come to whom it was promised;) appointed by angels in the hand of a mediator.

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

And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

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

But he truly of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; and he of the free through the promise.

Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:

To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ.

And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him;

Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.

Since he was longing for you all, and harassed because ye heard that he was sick.

For also he was sick near to death: but God compassionated him; and not him only, but also me, lest I should have grief upon grief.