and I desire that I may not be bold when present, with that confidence which I design to use against some who speak of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For we dare not judge or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves with themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.

for not he that commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

and when I was with you and was in want, I was burdensome to no one; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied beforehand my need; and in every thing I kept myself without being burdensome to you, and will keep myself so.

But what I do I also will do, that I may take away an occasion from those who wish an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we are.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I am not displeased?

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I lie not.

lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

I have said before, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although absent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;

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

PAUL an apostle, not from men nor by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life according to the will of God even our Father,

to whom be the glory forever and ever; amen.

which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ.

But when God who gave me being and called me by his grace,

neither did I go to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

only they heard that he who persecuted us formerly, now preached the faith which he formerly destroyed;

But Titus who was with me, and was a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised;

but on the contrary seeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter was of the circumcision,??8 for he that operated in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision, operated also in me for the gentiles,??9 and knowing the grace given me, James and Cephas and John, who were manifest pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcision;

I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

O FOOLISH Galatians, who has fascinated you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been set forth among you crucified?

My little children, with whom I am again in pain till Christ is formed in you,

for it is written, Rejoice, barren woman, that did not bear, break forth and cry, woman that had no pain, for the children of the desolate are more numerous than those of her who had a husband.

You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Those who wish to make a fair appearance in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [worlds] in Christ,

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace,

in whom also we have been called, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works out all things according to the counsel of his will,

that we should be for a praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ;

in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also you having believed were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

and what the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the operation of his mighty power,

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, performing the wishes of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as others;

but God who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,??5 even when we were dead in sins he made us alive with Christ,??y grace are you saved,

but now, in Christ Jesus you who were formerly far off have been made nigh by the blood of Christ.

For he is our peace, who made both one and broke down the middle wall of partition,

And he came and preached the good news of peace to you who were far off, and peace to those nigh,

To me, who am the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ,

and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the mystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things,

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in him.

of whom all the family in heaven and on earth is named,

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.

who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.

For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that you may know the things concerning us and that he may comfort your hearts.

The grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with constancy.

having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

who being in the form of God thought it not a robbery to be equal with God;

For I have no one like minded who really will care for your interests;

We are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and trust not in the flesh,

Be followers of me, brothers, and observe those who walk so as you have us for an example.

For many walk, of whom I told you often and now also tell you weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;

whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things.

who will change our humble body, and make it like his glorious body, by the power by which he is able also to subject all things to himself.

Yes, I beseech you also, faithful yoke-fellow, help those women who strove in the gospel with me, with Clement and the rest of my co-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

But I rejoice greatly in the Lord, that now at length you began again to care for me, for whom also you did care, but had no opportunity [to serve me].

as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

and who made known to us your love in the Spirit.

giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit for a portion in the inheritance of the saints in light,

who delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins,

who is the likeness of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation,

and he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he might himself be preeminent in all things,

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;

and you are made perfect in him, who is the head of all principality and power,

in whom you are also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, with the putting off of the body of the flesh, with the circumcision of Christ,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you have also been raised together through the effectual faith of God who raised him from the dead;

Tychicus will inform you of all things relating to me, who is a beloved brother, and faithful minister, and fellow-servant in the Lord,

whom I have sent to you for this purpose, that he may know your affairs and comfort your hearts,

with Onesimus the faithful and beloved brother, who is of you; they will tell you of all things here.

Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner salutes you, and Mark the nephew of Barnabas,??oncerning whom you received commandments, if he comes to you receive him,??11 and Jesus called Justus, who are of the circumcision; these are the only co-laborers for the kingdom of God who have been a comfort to me.

Epaphras, who is of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

but as we were judged worthy by God to be intrusted with the gospel so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tries our hearts.

and charged you to walk worthily of God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that receiving the word of God heard from us, you received not a word of men, but, as it is in truth, a word of God, who also works in you that believe.

who also killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God and are hostile to all men,

not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,

He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.

And we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those that have fallen asleep, that you may not grieve as others who have no hope.

For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who live and remain till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate those that have fallen asleep,

then we the living who remain shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall be always with the Lord.

but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation,

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.

And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Faithful is he that calls you, who will also perform.

since it is just with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

and to you who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels

who shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,

who opposes and exalts himself above every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

and then shall the wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming,

and with every unrighteous deceit among those who are destroyed, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.

that they all may be condemned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in wickedness.

and our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us eternal consolation and a good hope by grace,

But the Lord is faithful, who will confirm you, and guard you from evil.