Much freedom of speech to me toward you; to me much boasting over you: I am filled with consolation, I superabound in joy in all your pressure.

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.

Whether for Titus, my companion and co-worker to you: or our brethren, the sent of the churches, the glory of Christ.

For truly, concerning the service to the holy ones, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

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.

I would ye hold me up a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia.

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.

Besides things outside, my distraction daily, the care of all the churches.

If I must boast, I will boast things of my weakness.

In Damascus king Aretas' governor watched the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me

Indeed it is not profitable to me to boast. For I will come to visions and Revelation of the Lord.

Of such a one will I boast: and of myself I will not boast, except in my weakness.

For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.

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.

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.

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.

Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.

Since seek proof of Christ speaking in me, who to you is no weak, but has power in you.

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.

And with me all the brethren, to the churches of Galatia:

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:

And I advanced in Judaism above many like in my race, being more abundantly zealous of paternal traditions.

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

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

Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them sent before me; but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.

And they glorified God in me.

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

And from them seeming to be something, (whatever they were, it concerns me nothing: God receives not man's face:) for they seeming entrusted nothing to me:

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

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.

And it; seeking to be justified in Christ, we were found also ourselves sinners, is Christ therefore the servant of sin? It may not be.

I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.

The law then against the promises of God? It may not be: for if a law had been given able to make alive, truly justice would be by the law.

Be ye as I, for I also as you, brethren, I pray you: ye injured me nothing.

And my temptation in my flesh, ye counted not as nothing, nor spurned; but as an angel of God ye received me, as Christ Jesus.

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

And good to be zealous always in good, and not only in my being present with you.

My children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,

And I would be present with you now, and change my voice; for I am perplexed about you.

Tell me, those wishing to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

And it may not be to me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

For the rest let none cause me fatigues: for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body

Cease not returning thanks for you, making remembrance of you in my prayers;

If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you:

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

By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,)

Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power

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.

Wherefore I desire not to lose courage in my pressures for you, which is your glory.

For this I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

As to the rest, my brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

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,

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:

I return thanks to my God for all your remembrance,

Always in all my prayer for you all with joy making prayer,

As it is just for me to think this concerning you all, for my having you in the heart; both in my bonds, and in the justification and confirmation of the good news, ye all being partakers of grace with me.

For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels 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;

So that my bonds in Christ were manifest in the whole pretorium, and to all the rest;

And many of the brethren in the Lord, having trusted to my bonds, more abundantly dared to speak the word fearlessly.

Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds:

For I know that this shall be turned to me for salvation by your prayer, and the furnishing more of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.

For me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know not

That your boasting may abound in Jesus Christ in me, for my coming again to you.

Having the same struggle which ye saw in me, and now hear in me.

Fill ye up my joy, that ye may have the same in mind, having the same love, unanimous, being one in mind.

Therefore, my beloved, as ye have always listened, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and tremor effect your own salvation.

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.

And do ye also rejoice at the same, and rejoice together with me.

And ye know his proof, that, as a child to a father, he served with me in the good news.

Him therefore I truly hope to send, whenever I shall see from it the things concerning me.

And I thought necessary Epaphroditus, my brother, and cooperator, and fellow soldier, and your sent, and workman of my necessity, be sent to you.

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.

Because for the work of Christ he drew near to death, having exposed the soul to danger, that he might fill up your want of service to me.

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me is not slothful, and to you safe.

But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ.

But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ,

And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:

Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.

Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.

Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand ye in the Lord, dearly beloved.

And I also ask thee, worthy yoke-fellow, aid those women who fought in company with me in the good news, and with Clement, and the rest of my co-workers, whose names in the book of life.

And what things ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that once already ye recovered new vigor; for thinking of me, upon whom ye were thinking, and ye had not time.

Not that I speak concerning want; for I have learned, among whom I am, to be satisfied with my condition.

I am strong for all things in Christ strengthening me.

But ye did well, participating together in my pressure.

And ye also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news, when I went out from Macedonia, no church participated with me in the word of donation and accepting, except ye alone.

For also in Thessalonica, and once, and twice, ye sent to my necessity.

Greet ye every one holy in Christ Jesus. The brethren with me greet you.