to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.

And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;

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

to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.

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,

But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, 'If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,

having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!

I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law -- then Christ died in vain.

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'

and the law is not by faith, but -- 'The man who did them shall live in them.'

and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

and the mediator is not of one, and God is one --

the law, then, is against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

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;

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;

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

for it hath been written, 'Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'

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;'

then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?

the obedience is not of him who is calling you!

For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

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;

and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!

and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

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;

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,

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;

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

far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

not of works, that no one may boast;

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --

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

and ye did not so learn the Christ,

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;

become not, then, partakers with them,

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what is the will of the Lord,

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

And if to live in the flesh is to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;

and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;

because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,

And I thought it necessary Epaphroditus -- my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need -- to send unto you,

for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you is sure;

not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ -- the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content;

because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent;

not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.

-- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle --

which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,

because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,