great is my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,

so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,

but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;

but by equality, at the present time your abundance -- for their want, that also their abundance may be for your want, that there may be equality,

avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

whether -- about Titus -- my partner and towards you fellow-worker, whether -- our brethren, apostles of assemblies -- glory of Christ;

For, indeed, concerning the ministration that is for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,

and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,

lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

Necessary, therefore, I thought it to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,

and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

and I beseech you, that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.

that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:

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;

and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.

if to boast it behoveth me, of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,

To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

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

and He said to me, 'Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on 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.

for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

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.

since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in 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;

for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!

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.

and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

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!

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 I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,

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,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,

and they were glorifying God in me.

Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;

but not even Titus, who is with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --

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 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;

that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;

Become as I am -- because I also am as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

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;

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

they are zealous for you -- yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

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

my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.

Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

but what saith the Writing? 'Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'

I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;

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.

Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand;

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,

for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body do bear.

do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

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,

not of works, that no one may boast;

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

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

that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few words --

in regard to which ye are able, reading it, to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

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,

wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

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