But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I took you with guile.

I urged Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found unto you such as you desire not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceit, tumults:

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn over many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have committed.

I told you before, and tell you again, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who earlier have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.

Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are counterfeits?

But I trust that you shall know that we are not counterfeits.

Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we be as failures.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification, and not to destruction.

Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

For do I now seek the favor of men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

To whom we yielded in subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I do not nullify the grace of God: for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been openly set forth, crucified among you?

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

And the law is not of faith: but, The man that does them shall live in them.

Now to Abraham and his descendant were the promises made. He says not, And to descendants, as of many; but as of one, And to your descendant, who is Christ.

Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.

But then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at all.

And my trial which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

They are zealous of you, but not for good; yea, they would exclude you, that you might be zealous of them.

But it is good to be zealous always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.

Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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

This persuasion comes not of him that calls you.

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will not be otherwise minded: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come:

For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

Therefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

From whom the whole body being fitly joined together and knit together by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

But you have not so learned Christ;

Be angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not fitting: but rather giving of thanks.

Be not therefore partakers with them.

See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,

Therefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.

The one preach Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I know not.

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God:

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

For indeed he was sick near unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Because for the work of Christ he was near unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not troublesome, but for you it is safe.

And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if indeed I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content.

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature who is under heaven; of which I Paul am made a minister;

For I desire that you know what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Let no man deceive you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

And not holding the Head, from whom all the body by joints and ligaments having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God.

(Touch not; taste not; handle not;

Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any value to the indulgence of the flesh.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.