but burdens are to be equalized. Now your abundance at this present time present time is a supply for their want, in supply for your want; and so burdens be equalized,

As for Titus, remember that he is a partner of mine, and is also my associate in labors for you. As for the other brothers, remember that they are delegates from the churches, men in whom Christ is glorified.

for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

for the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but mighty for God, in pulling down all fortresses.

"His letters indeed," says one, "are mighty and forcible, but his personality is weak, and his speech contemptible."

I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another.

If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me.

For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.

Since so many are making worldly boasts, I shall boast, too!

Although you are wise, you put up with fools willingly enough!

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they descendants of Israel? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof?

For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation.

with all the brothers who are with me. To the churches of Galatia greeting.

I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, in the presence of the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all. "If you, although you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, why do you try to compel the Gentiles to become Jews?

"We are Jews by birth, and not 'Gentile sinners';

Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?

Notice then that the true sons of Abraham are children of faith.

So then they who are children of faith are blessed with Abraham the faithful;

but now that the Faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor-slave.

You are all sons of God through your faith in Jesus Christ.

In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

And because you are sons, God sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Dear, dear Father!"

Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

You are scrupulous, are you, in observing "days" and "months" and "seasons" and "years"?

Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor.

Now all this is an allegory, for these women are the two covenants; one from Mount Sinai, which is Hagar bearing children into bondage

For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren one who dost never bear, Break forth in joy, thou that dost not travail; For the children of the desolate woman are many. Yea, more than hers who has a husband.

But you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise;

So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;

Listen to me! I, Paul, declare to you that if you are to continue to follow the rite of circumcision, Christ will be no profit to you.

If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.

But we are not, for we through the Spirit are eagerly waiting by faith for a hope of righteousness (a hope well founded);

Would to God that those who are trying to unsettle you would even have themselves mutilated.

But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.

For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

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

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

If we are living by the Spirit, let us also keep step in the Spirit.

Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted.

So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Those who are trying to compel you to be circumcised are such as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh.

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

for the government of the fulness of the ages, that all things in heaven and earth are alike should be gathered up in Christ, as Head.

for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

Do not forget then, that you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by the "circumcision" made in flesh by man's hand,

Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.

and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling-place of God through his Spirit.

namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles form one body with us the Jews, and are coheirs and copartners in the promise, through the gospel.

So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory.

So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.

For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord.

For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret;

but all these things, when exposed, are by the light made manifest, and what is made manifest is light.

Buy up opportunity, for the times are evil.

for we are members of his body.

Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with reverence and humility, in singleness of heart as if to Christ himself;

Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, and to the elders and deacons.

It is but just that I should be thus mindful of you all, because I have you in my heart, and because in these fetters of mine and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel you are all my fellow partners in the privilege.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

and most of the brothers in the Lord, made confident in the Lord through my imprisonment, are much emboldened to speak God's message with free and fearless confidence.

Some indeed are preaching Christ out of envy and contentiousness, but others from good-will.

but the former preach Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, because they think they are adding bitterness to my bonds.

Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

For we are the true circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and make our boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in outward rites,

Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;

For there are many??s I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears??ho live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

Their end is destruction, their belly is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are set on earthly things.

But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

yes, and I beg you also, my true yokefellow, to help them; for these women shared my toil in the furtherance of the gospel, together with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me salute you.

to the holy and believing brothers in Christ who are in Colosse. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father.

To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge!

since you are rooted in him, and in him continually built up. Be firmly established in the faith as you were taught it, and continually abound in it with thanksgiving.

If you died with Christ to the world's rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men??21 such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this"??22 all things which are intended to perish in the using?

For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.

If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on the right hand of God.

These things are ever bringing down the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience,

You know that from the Lord you will receive reward of the inheritance, for you are the Lord Christ's slaves.

These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God, belonging to the circumcision, who have been any comfort to me.

You are witnesses??nd so is God??ow pure and just and blameless was my behavior among you believers.

For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews??15 The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out??hey are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.

For you are my pride and my delight.

So that no one should be shaken by these troubles??or you know well that we are appointed to troubles.

But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.

For now I am really living, if you are standing firm in the Lord.

Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.

So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not sorrow like other men, who have no hope.

For this I tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who survive unto the coming of the Lord, will in no wise precede those who have fallen asleep.