even as it is written, He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little did not lack.

this I did, to prevent any suspicion that might be rais'd from my having the management of so great a sum:

for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,

and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us -- to reach even unto you;

for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,

for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;

If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me.

And though I am rude in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; but this did we in every respect manifest to you in all things.

Or, a sin, did I commit - abasing, myself, that, ye, might be exalted, - in that, free of charge, God's glad-message, I announced unto you?

other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;

When I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have kept myself, and will keep myself, from burdening you in any way.

Did not even Satan marvelously transform himself into an angel of light?

from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;

However, if I did want to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I am not going to do it in order to keep anyone from thinking more of me than what he sees and hears about me.

Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

So in what way were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I personally did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

But let it be! - I, myself, did not burden you, - Notwithstanding, being crafty, with guile, I caught you?

Did I make gain of you through any of those whom I sent to you?

I urged Titus to go, and with him I sent our brother. Did Titus make gain of you? And did I not walk in the same spirit as he did? Did I not take the very same steps?

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.

I have already warned those who formerly committed shocking sins, and all the rest, and though so far away I warn them now, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will not spare them,

because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat any sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

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 --

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;

But even though I myself or an angel from heaven were to preach any gospel other than that which I did preach to you, let him be accursed.

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.

For I would like to clarify for you, brothers, the situation regarding the Gospel that I have preached: It did not originate from man.

for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.

Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas, and I stayed with him 15 days.

But I didn’t see any of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.

But the churches of the Messiah that are in Judea did not yet know me personally.

who had only heard, that I, who formerly persecuted them, did now preach the gospel of faith, which I once endeavoured to suppress:

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

But although Titus, my companion, was a Greek, they did not compel even him to be circumcised.

and that because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among 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,

for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,

and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision may go,

For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly toward the truth of the good-news, I said to Peter before all, If thou being a Jew, live as a Gentile and not as a Jew, why do thou compel the Gentiles to live as Jews?

having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

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 set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness come through the Law, then did Christ die for nought.

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Are you so senseless? Did you begin by the Spirit, but are now approaching perfection by fleshly means?

Did you have such experience to no purpose??f indeed it was really to no purpose?

He then who was supplying unto you the Spirit, and energising mighty works among you, by works of law, or by a believed report did he it ?

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 --

so that it is they who believe, who are blessed with Abraham, who did believe.

and the law is not by faith, but -- 'The man who did them shall live in them.'

Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

And this he did that the blessing given to Abraham might be extended to the Gentiles through their union with Jesus Christ; that so, through our faith, we also might receive the promised gift of the Spirit.

Now it was to Abraham that the promises were spoken, and to his offspring. God did not say, "offsprings" as if speaking of many, but "and to your offspring," as of one; and this is Christ.

This is what I mean: The Law that came 430 years later did not cancel the covenant that God ratified previously. The promise was never nullified.

For if the inheritance comes from law, it no longer comes from a promise; but God did give it as a free gift to Abraham by a promise.

But the Scripture, did shut up, all things, under sin, that, the promise by faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to them who have faith,

For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.

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 you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir because of what God did.

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

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

and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.)

So then did I become your enemy speaking to you the truth?

for it is written, Rejoice, barren woman, that did not bear, break forth and cry, woman that had no pain, for the children of the desolate are more numerous than those of her who had a husband.

But, just as, then, he that after the manner of the flesh had been born, did persecute him who had been born after the manner of the Spirit, thus, also now.

So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.

Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

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,

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will --

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,

so abundantly did he lavish upon us the riches of his grace in all wisdom and understanding,

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

[He did this] to fulfill His plan at the proper time, by bringing together everything [in the universe] under Christ's headship --- things both in heaven and on earth.

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

for our being to the praise of His glory, even those who did first hope in the Christ,

which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

And did put, all things, in subjection beneath his feet. And gave him to be head over all things unto the assembly,

And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,