whilst we direct our aim not to the things which are seen, but to the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are eternal.

Great is my freedom of speech to you, great is my glorying over you: I am filled with consolation, I overflow with joy in all our tribulation.

For if I have boasted of you to him in any thing, I am not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so our boasting of you to Titus hath been found truth.

And we have sent with him our brother, whom we have often experienced in many things to be a man of diligence, but now much more diligent, through the great confidence which I have in you.

NOW I Paul myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who, when present, am indeed lowly among you, but being absent, am bold towards you.

But I pray, that when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I purpose to act resolutely against some who think of us, as if we walked after the flesh.

For not he who commendeth himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commendeth.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy; for I have espoused you to one husband, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

For if he indeed that cometh preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not embraced, ye might well bear with him.

Am I chargeable with a fault (humbling myself that you might be exalted), that I preached to you the gospel of God freely?

I repeat it again, Let no man suppose that I am a fool; but if otherwise, then as a fool receive me, that I too may boast myself a little.

I speak with reference to the reproach [cast on me], as though we were feeble; but wherein any man is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.

Who is feeble, and am I not feeble? Who is offended, and am I not on fire?

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

Did I make a gain of you by any one individual whom I sent unto you?

For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found of you such as ye would not: lest haply there be contentions, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

THIS third time I am coming to you: by the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every charge be established.

For this cause, though absent, I have written these things, that when I am present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

to whom not even for an hour have we yielded subjection, that the truth of the gospel might abide with you.

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I should live unto God.

I am crucified with Christ, yet I live; though no more I, but Christ liveth in me: and my present life in the flesh, is a life by faith in the Son of God, who hath loved me, and delivered up himself for me.

O INFATUATED Galatians, who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth? To whom Jesus Christ has been described, as before your eyes, crucified among you.

To what end then was the law given? It was given on account of transgressions, until that seed should come to whom the promise was made, being delivered through the ministry of angels into the hand of a mediator.

I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

Be as I am, for I also am as ye are, brethren??his is my request to you: ye have not injured me in the least.

Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

It is good indeed to be zealously affected in a good cause always, and not only when I am present with you.

My little children of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,

I wish I could be with you now, and change my address; for I am in doubt about you.

But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then indeed the offence of the cross is at an end.

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world,

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

in whom also we have obtained our inheritance, predestinated according to the purpose of him who effectually worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will:

In whom ye also [trusted] after ye had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, ye have been sealed with the holy Spirit of promise,

among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest.

in whom the whole building exactly cemented together groweth into a holy temple in the Lord:

by whom also ye have been built up together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

FOR this cause [am] I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which was given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

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

of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named;

From whom the whole body nicely joined together, and firmly connected by every joint of exact proportion, according to the energy exerted in the measure of every several part, causeth the increase of the body unto the edification of itself in love.

This mystery is great: but I am speaking with regard to Christ, and with regard to the church.

for which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

But that ye also may know the things which concern me, and what I am doing, Tychicus will inform you of the whole, a beloved brother, and faithful in the Lord:

whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

but the others of love, knowing that I am exposed for the defence of the gospel.

For I am in a strait between the two, having an earnest longing to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, for this is far, far better:

Let not each aim at their own particular interests, but every man at those of others.

that ye may be blameless and harmless, the children of God, inoffensive, in the midst of an untoward and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as luminaries in the world;

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the transcendently excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as offals of ordure, that I may gain Christ,

Not that I have already attained, or am now perfect: but I pursue, that I may overtake that for which also by his apprehension of me I am destined by Christ Jesus.

For many walk, whom I have often mentioned to you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Not that I mention this with a view to my indigence: for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am, to be content.

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in every state and in all situations I am instructed either to be full or famishing, either to enjoy abundance, or to suffer want:

I am enabled for all things by Christ who strengtheneth me.

Not that I am anxious for a gift; but I am anxious to see fruit abounding on your account.

But I have now all things, and abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your bounty, an odour of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

in whom we have redemption through his blood, and forgiveness of sins.

if ye abide in faith grounded and firm, and never moved aside from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached to the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul am a minister.

of which I am a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which was given me for you to fulfil the ministry of the word of God??26 the mystery which was hid from ages and from generations, but is now unveiled to his saints;

to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.

in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

For though I am absent from you in person, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing and beholding your regular order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

in whom also ye have been circumcised with the circumcision not made with hands, by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ:

praying also at the same time for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, that I may speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains:

whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that he might know your affairs, and comfort your hearts;

There salute you Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner, and Mark nephew to Barnabas, concerning whom ye have received injunctions; if he come unto you, receive him,

and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivereth us from the wrath to come.

And then that lawless person will appear, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming;

It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered over unto Satan, that they may be corrected, so as to blaspheme no more.

of which I am ordained a preacher and apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not,) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

who alone possesseth immortality, inhabiting light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and glory eternal. Amen.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that I keep up a constant remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

recalling to my memory the unfeigned faith which was in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that [it is] in thee also.

whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed: for I know on whom I have placed my confidence, and am persuaded that he is mighty to guard my deposit unto the great day.

Knowest thou this, that all those of Asia have deserted me? among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

And their discourse will eat like as a gangrene; of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus;

But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and believed, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

For I am now ready to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution approaches.

against whom be thou also on thy guard, for he hath greatly resisted our words.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and preserve me for his celestial kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

I entreat thee for my son, whom I have begotten during my bonds, Onesimus:

whom I have sent back; thou therefore receive him, even as my own bowels:

whom I wished to detain about myself, that in thy stead he might have waited upon me during my bonds for the gospel:

in these last days hath spoken to us by a Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to perfect the Author of their salvation by sufferings.

And again, "I will place my confidence in him." And again, "Behold! Here am I, and the children which God hath given me."

WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, contemplate the apostle and high-priest whom ye confess, Jesus Christ;

But against whom was he incensed forty years? Was it not against those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who did not believe?