For if he that comes should preach another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or, if you receive another Spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you would well bear with him.

besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches.

was caught away to Paradise, and heard words not to be spoken, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, unless in this that I did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.

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

For this reason, I write these things, while absent, that I may not, when present, use severity, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

which is nothing else than that there are some who trouble you, and are determined to pervert the gospel of the Christ.

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach to you any other gospel than that which we have preached, let him be ac cursed.

As we said before, so even now I say again, if any one preaches to you any other gospel than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

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

With respect to the things which I now write to you, behold, before God I lie not.

but I was not known, in person, to the churches of Judea which are in Christ.

They had heard only that he who formerly persecuted us was now preaching the faith which he once destroyed.

I acted thus indeed on account of false brethren, stealthily brought in, who stole in to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

requesting only that we would remember the poor, which same thing I have been diligent in doing.

For if I build again those things which I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

I have been crucified with Christ, yet I live; no longer 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.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring; he does not say: And to offsprings, as if he spoke of many; but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.

And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.

Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It can not be. For if a law had been given which could have given life, surely righteousness would have been by law.

But before the faith came, we were kept under law, being shut up to the faith which was to be revealed.

now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

and my trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or loathe; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

These things are allegorized: for these women are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai that brings forth for bondage, which is Hagar.

But Jerusalem which is above is free; and she is the mother of us all.

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

For we, through the Spirit which we obtain by faith, wait for the hope of righteousness.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

Henceforward let no one give me trouble: for I bear in my body the wounds which I received on account of the Lord Jesus.

for the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he has shown us favor in the Beloved,

which he has made to abound to us in all wisdom and understanding,

by making known to us the mystery of his will according to his good purpose which he had before established in himself,

for a dispensation at the fullness of the times, in order that he might bring together for himself all things in the Christ, both those which are in the heavens, and those which are on earth;

which is the earnest of our inheritance, given for the redemption of his possession to the praise of his glory.

which he made active in the Christ when he raised him from the dead, and caused him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

high above every principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come;

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all his members with all things,

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:

but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,

For we are his workman ship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.

For which reason, remember that you were formerly Gen tiles, by natural descent, and that you are called Uncircumcision by the Circumcision; so called, from a mark made in the flesh by hands;

if, indeed, you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God, which was given to me for your benefit,

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

of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God which was given to me, in proportion to the energy of his power:

and enlighten all men with respect to the plan of the mystery, which was concealed from the ages in God, who created all things;

according to the arrangement of the ages, which he established by Christ Jesus our Lord,

For which cause I beseech you not to grow faint on account of my afflictions for you, which are your glory.

Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to his power which works in us,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;

For which reason, the scripture says: When he ascended on high, he led captive a multitude of captives, and gave gifts to men.

that, as to your former life, you put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to its deceitful desires,

and put on the new man, which, according to the will of God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.

For which reason, putting away lying, speak, every one, truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Let him that steals, steal no more: but rather let labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that has need.

and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, with which you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

nor obscene language, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not becoming; but rather the cheerful words of. a thankful heart.

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

Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,

taking up, over all, the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one:

and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

for which I am an ambassador in chains, that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which fruit is by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

But I wish you to know, brethren, that the things which have befallen me have turned out rather to the advancement of the gospel;

so that my bonds which are for Christ have become known to be such in all the palace, and in all other places;

I am in a strait between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better:

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

For which reason God has highly exalted him, and, also, bestowed on him a name that is above every name;

because for the work of the Christ he was near to death, not regarding his life, that he might supply that which was lacking in your service to me.

as it respects zeal, persecuting the church; as it respects righteousness which is by law, blameless.

But the things which were gain to me, these I counted loss for Christ.

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness which was by law, but the righteousness which is by faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,

Not that I have already attained, or have already reached the goal; but I am pressing forward, that I may lay hold on that for which I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

who will transform our humbled body, and make it like his glorious body, according to that power by which he is able to subdue all things to himself.

and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Do those things which you have learned and received, and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

in consequence of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

which is present among you, as it is also in all the world, and is producing fruit, even as it has been doing also among you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

For this reason, we also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what remains of my sufferings for Christ in my flesh for the sake of his body, which is the church,

of which I was made a minister according to the commission from God, which was given to me for you, that I might fully preach the word of God,

the mystery which was concealed from the ages and the generations, but is now made manifest to his saints,

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

to which end I also labor, striving according to his energy, which works in me mightily.

when you were buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him by your faith in the energy of God, who raised him from the dead.

having blotted out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us, which was opposed to us, he also took it out of the way, driving a nail through it by means of his cross;

which things are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is in Christ,

Let no one gain his purpose in depriving you of the palm by an affected humility and worship of angels, prying into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

and not holding the head, from which the whole body gathering vigor, and firmly united by joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

(all of which are for the destruction of those who use them,) according to the commandments and teachings of men;

Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

in which things you also formerly walked when you lived in them.

and have put on the new man, which is renewed for knowledge, ac cording to the image of him that created him;

in which new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all and in all.

and over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

And let the peace of God, to which you are called in one body, rule in your hearts, and be thankful.

But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done; and there is no respect of persons.

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