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Obstinate sinners threatened.

CHAP. I. Paul marvels at the Galatians.

brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? we shall live with him by the power of walked we not in the same spirit? walked God toward you.

we not in the same steps?

5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be 19 Again, think ye that we excuse our-in the faith; prove your own selves. Know selves unto you? we speak before God in ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ: but we do all things, dearly be- Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? loved, for your edifying. 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

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20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lestthere be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

8 For we can do nothing against the

21 And lest, when I come again, my truth, but for the truth. God will humble me among you, and that 9 For we are glad, when we are weak, I shall bewail many which have sinned al- and ye are strong: and this also we wish, ready, and have not repented of the un-even your perfection.

cleanness, and fornication, and lascivious- 10 Therefore I write these things being ness, which they have committed. absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which

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CHAP. XIII.

HIS is the third time I am coming to the Lord hath given me to edification, you: In the mouth of two or three and not to destruction. witnesses shall every word be established. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be per2 I told you before, and foretell you, as fect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, if I were present, the second time; and live in peace; and the God of love and being absent now I write to them which peace shall be with you. heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speak

12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you.

14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,

ing in me, which to you-ward is not weak, and the love of God, and the communion

but is mighty in you.

4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in `him, but

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the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.

I The Epistle of PAUL,the Apostle, to the GALATIANS.

CHAP. I.

PAUL,
DAUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither
by man, but by Jesus Christ, and
God the Father, who raised him from the
dead ;)

2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia :

3 Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel:

you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man:

12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it;

14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of

7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the traditions of my fathers. the gospel of Christ.

15 But when it pleased God, who sepa8 But though we, or an angel from hea-rated me from my mother's womb, and ven, preach any other gospel unto you than called me by his grace, that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto!

16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to

Of justification by faith.

GALATIANS.

Believers are justified.

them which were apostles before me: but James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but I went into Arabia, and returned again when they were come, he withdrew, and unto Damascus. separated himself, fearing them which

18 Then after three years I went up to were of the circumcision. Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ: 23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

24 And they glorified God in me.

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CHAP. II.

HEN fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I 17 But if, while we seek to be justified preach among the Gentiles, but privately by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinto them which were of reputation, lest by ners, is therefore Christ the minister of any means I should run, or had run,in vain. sin? God forbid. 3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be cir

cumcised:

18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to 4 And that because of false brethren the law, that I might live unto God. unawares brought in, who came in privily 20 I am crucified with Christ: neverto spy out our liberty which we have in theless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into in me: and the life which I now live in the bondage: flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God,

CHAP. III.

5 To whom we gave place by subjec-who loved me, and gave himself for me. tion, no, not for an hour; that the truth of 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: the gospel might continue with you. for if righteousness come by the law, then 6 But of those, who seemed to be some-Christ is dead in vain. what, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me. God accepteth no man's FOOLISH Galatians, who hath beperson for they who seemed to be some- witched you, that ye should not obey what, in conference added nothing to me: the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ 7 But contrariwise, when they saw that hath been evidently set forth, crucified the gospel of the uncircumcision was com- among you?

mitted unto me, as the gospel of the cir- 2 This only would I learn of you, Recumcision was unto Peter; ceived ye the Spirit by the works of the

8 (For he that wrought effectually in law, or by the hearing of faith? Peter to the apostleship of the circum- 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the cision, the same was mighty in me toward Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? the Gentiles :) 4 Have ye suffered so many things in

9 And when James, Cephas, and John, vain? if it be yet in vain. who seemed to be pillars, perceived the 5 He therefore that ministereth to you grace that was given unto me, they gave the Spirit, and worketh miracles among to me and Barnabas the right hands of fel-you, doeth he it by the works of the law, lowship; that we should go unto the hea-for by the hearing of faith? then, and they unto the circumcision.

6 Even as Abraham believed God, and 10 Only they would that we should re- it was accounted to him for righteousness. member the poor; the same which I also 7 Know ye therefore, that they which was forward to do. jare of faith, the same are the children of

11 But when Peter was come to Anti-Abraham.

och, I withstood him to the face, because 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,

he was to be blamed.

12 For before that certain came from preached before the gospel unto Abraham,

Believers blessed with Abraham. CHAP. IV.

Christ frees from the law.

saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, 9 So then they which be of faith are there is neither bond nor free, there is blessed with faithful Abraham. neither male nor female: for ye are all

10 For as many as are of the works of one in Christ Jesus. the law, are under the curse: for it is 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye written, Cursed is every one that con- Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the tinueth not in all things which are written promise. in the book of the law to do them.

CHAP. IV.

11 But that no man is justified by the Now is a child, differeth nothing from TOW I say, That the heir, as long as

law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

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servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the

13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us for it is written, Cursed is every one world; that hangeth on a tree:

14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth thereto.

16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

17 And this I say, That the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till

4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,'

5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

you,

the seed should come to whom the promise 12 Brethren, I beseech be as I am; was made; and it was ordained by angels for I am as ye are : ye have n t injured me in the hand of a mediator. at all.

20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one.

13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been 14 And my temptation which was in a law given which could have given life, my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; verily righteousness should have been by but received me as an angel of God, even the law. as Christ Jesus.

22 But the scripture hath concluded all 15 Where is then the blessedness ye under sin, that the promise by faith of Je- spake of? for I bear you record, that if it sus Christ might be given to them that had been possible, ye would have plucked believe. out your own eyes, and have given them

23 But before faith came, we were kept to me. under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a school-master.

26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,

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20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

cumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? 11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach cir then is the offence of the cross ceased. 12 I would they were even cut off which trouble

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you.

13 For, brethren, ye have been called

22 For it is written, that Abraham had
two sons; the one by a bond-maid, the unto liberty; only use not liberty for an
other by a free-woman.
occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one

23 But he who was of the bond-woman, another.
was born after the flesh; but he of the
free-woman was by promise.

24 Which things are an allegory: for
these are the two covenants; the one from

neighbour as thyself.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one
word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy

the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bond-ther, take heed that ye be not consumed
age, which is Agar.
15 But if ye bite and devour one ano-
one of another.

25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Ara-
bia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now
is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free,
which is the mother of us all.

and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit,

rit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spi-
these are contrary the one to the other; so

not under the law.
18 But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are

27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou bar-that ye cannot do the things that ye would. ren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath a husband.

28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

uncleanness, lasciviousness,
19 Now the works of the flesh are mani-
fest, which are these, Adultery, fornication,

29 But as then he that was born after ance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, the flesh persecuted him that was born after heresies, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, varithe Spirit, even so it is now.

30 Nevertheless, what saith the scrip-vellings, and such like: of the which I tell ture? Cast out the bond-woman and her you before, as I have also told you in time 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, reson: for the son of the bond-woman shall past, that they which do such things shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman. not inherit the kingdom of God. 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free. CHAP. V. TAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

peace, long-suffering, gentleness, good-
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
ness, faith,

there is no law.
23 Meekness, temperance: against such

24 And they that are Christ's have cru-
walk in the Spirit.
cified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also

provoking one another, envying one ano-
26 Let us not be desirous of vain-glory,

3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the ther. whole law.

CHAP. VI.

whosoever of you are justified by the law;
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in
ye are fallen from grace.

a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; con

5 For we through the Spirit wait for the sidering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. hope of righteousness by faith. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and

6 For in Jesus Christ neither circum-so fulfil the law of Christ.

cision availeth any thing, nor uncircum

3 For if a man think himself to be some

cision; but faith which worketh by love. thing, when he is nothing, he deceiveth

7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you himself.

that ye should not obey the truth?

4 But let every man prove his own

8 This persuasion co.neth not of him work, and then shall he have rejoicing in that calleth you. himself alone, and not in another.

9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole

lump.

5 For every man shall bear his own burden.

10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise communica unto him that teacheth in all minded: but he that troubleth you shall good things 6 Let him that is taught in the word, bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

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CHAP. I, II.

Of election and adoption. for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he circumcised keep the law; but desire to also reap. have you circumcised, that they may glory 8 For he that soweth to his flesh, shall in your flesh. of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

9 And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

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

10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. 11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. 17 From henceforth let no man trouble 12 As many as desire to make a fair me: for I bear in my body the marks of shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be the Lord Jesus. circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

13 For neither they themselves who are

18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen TUnto the Galatians,written from Rome

¶ The Epistle of PAUL,the Apostle, to the EPHESIANS.

CHAP. I.

PAUL an apostle of Jesus Christ by the

will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

4 According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved:

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

your salvation: in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,

14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward his own right hand in the heavenly places, us in all wisdom and prudence; 21 Far above all principality, and pow 9 Having made known unto us the mys-er, and might, and dominion, and every tery of his will, according to his good plea-name that is named, not only in this world, sure, which he hath purposed in himself: but also in that which is to come: 10 That in the dispensation of the ful- 22 And hath put all things under his ness of times he might gather together in feet, and gave him to be the head over all one all things in Christ, both which are in things to the church, heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

25 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

CHAP. II.

ND you hath he quickened, who were

dead in trespasses and sins;

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the 13 In whom ye also trusted, after that air, the spirit that now worketh in the ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of children of disobedience :

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