But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is right, and we be as reprobates.

But if even we or an angel out of heaven announce as glad tidings to you anything besides what we have announced as glad tidings to you, let him be accursed.

As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one announce to you as glad tidings anything besides what ye have received, let him be accursed.

But I let you know, brethren, as to the glad tidings which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.

was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not counsel with flesh and blood,

But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous communicated nothing;

but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of the circumcision,

and recognising the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were conspicuous as being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go to the nations, and they to the circumcision;

But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified among you?

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;

But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.

Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

For ye, as many as have been baptised unto Christ, have put on Christ.

Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

Be as I am, for I also am as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

and my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.

But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him that was born according to Spirit, so also it is now.

Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated from him, as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.

I have confidence as to you in the Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt of it, whosoever he may be.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.

As many as desire to have a fair appearance in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted because of the cross of Christ.

And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace upon them and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;

among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,

which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,

But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us,

There is one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as the truth is in Jesus;

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,

See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly. He is Saviour of the body.

But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.

But ye also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife I speak that she may fear the husband.

Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ;

not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

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

for which I am an ambassador bound with a chain, that I may be bold in it as I ought to speak.

as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have me in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.

being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.

so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death.

because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.

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

that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:

as to circumcision, I received it the eighth day; of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which is in the law, found blameless;

As many therefore as are perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal to you.

Be imitators all together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

for our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,

yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me I have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.

which are come to you, as they are in all the world, and are bearing fruit and growing, even as also among you, from the day ye heard them and knew indeed the grace of God, in truth:

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

so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;

For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also do ye.

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Whatsoever ye do, labour at it heartily, as doing it to the Lord, and not to men;

to the end that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.

For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:

but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.

but even as we have been approved of God to have the glad tidings entrusted to us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proves our hearts.

For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have been a charge as Christ's apostles;

but have been gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse would cherish her own children.

as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,

for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye know.)

But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as we also you;