the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! --

I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago -- whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known -- such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

and I have known such a man -- whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --

Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, are for your up-building,

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with you all! Amen.

Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --

Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!

as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,

for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace --

to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;

and only they were hearing, that 'he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news -- the faith that then he was wasting;'

and they were glorifying God in me.

and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.

And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,

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

But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, 'If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law -- then Christ died in vain.

according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --

and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because 'The righteous by faith shall live;'

and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

for if by law be the inheritance, it is no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant it.

and the mediator is not of one, and God is one --

the law, then, is against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father!'

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

But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

and my trial that is in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus;

and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

and as many as by this rule do walk -- peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

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

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

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

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,

and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh,

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,

and to cause all to see what is the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all,

and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

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

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace;

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,