Truly the signs of the apostle were worked out among you in all patience, in miracles and in wonders, and by works of power.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls, even if loving you more and more, I am loved the less.

But let it be so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, I caught you with bait.

By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him?

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

I am coming to you this third time. In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.

for even if He was crucified out of weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For indeed even we are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you),

But I pray to God for you not to do evil, none. And not that we may appear approved, but that you should do the good things, though we are deemed to be reprobates.

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Perfect yourselves; encourage yourselves; mind the same thing; be at peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed.

As we said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed.

For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

And, brothers, I make known to you the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it except by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me by His grace,

and was unknown by face to the churches of Judea in Christ.

And I went up by revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to those seeming to be pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.

(But not even Titus, the one with me, a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.)

But from those who seemed to be something (what kind they were then does not matter to me; God does not accept the face of man), for those seeming important conferred nothing to me.

and knowing the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave right hands of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we go to the nations, but they to the circumcision.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed.

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

knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith in Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we also were found to be sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Let it not be said!

I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.

This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Then He supplying the Spirit to you and working powerful works in you, is it by works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations through faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all nations be blessed."

But that no one is justified by the Law in the sight of God is clear, for, "The just shall live by faith."

so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

And I say this, A covenant having been ratified by God in Christ, the Law (coming into being four hundred and thirty years after) does not annul the promise, so as to abolish it.

For if the inheritance is of Law, it is no more of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by way of promise.

Is the Law then against the promises of God? Let it not be said! For if a law had been given which could have given life, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.

But the Scripture shut up all under sin, so that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But before faith came, we were kept under Law, having been shut up to the faith about to be revealed.

So that the Law has become a trainer of us until Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

There cannot be Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

but he is under guardians and housemasters until the term appointed before by the father.

But then, indeed, not knowing God, you served as slaves to those not by nature being gods.

But now, knowing God, but rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you again desire to slave anew?

Brothers, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you. You have not injured me at all.

They are zealous for you, but not well. But they only desire to shut you out, that you be zealous to them.

But it is good to be zealous always in a good thing, and not only in my being present with you.

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

even now I desired to be present with you, and to change my voice; for I am in doubt as to you.

Tell me, those desiring to be under Law, do you not hear the Law?

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

you who are justified by Law are deprived of all effect from Christ; you fell from grace.

I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will think nothing else, but that he troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

For, brothers, you were called to liberty. Only do not use the liberty for an opening to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

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

Brothers, if a man is overtaken in a fault, you the spiritual ones restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

For if anyone thinks himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also will reap.

As many as desire to look well in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

For they themselves, having been circumcised, do not even keep the Law, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

But may it never be for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them and upon the Israel of God.

Brothers, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus.

Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;

according as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

having predestined us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

for us to be to the praise of His glory, who previously had trusted in Christ;

And He has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church,

among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

(even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

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

Therefore remember that you, the nations, in time past were in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

But now in Christ Jesus you who were once afar off are made near by the blood of Christ.

and so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity in Himself.

For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I wrote before in few words,

by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

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

that the nations should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partaker of His promise in Christ through the gospel.

Of this gospel I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of His power.

and to bring to light what is the fellowship of the mystery which from eternity has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;

so that now to the rulers and powers in the heavenlies might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

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

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;

that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height,

and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, forever. Amen.

And truly He gave some to be apostles, and some to be prophets, and some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

from whom the whole body, fitted together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of each part, producing the growth of the body to the edifying of itself in love.

if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus.

and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

Be angry, and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down upon your wrath,

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed until the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

Therefore be followers of God, as dear children.