2 Cor. xi. 5.

2 Cor. xi. 9.

2 Cor. viii. 6.

2 Cor. v. 12.

2 Cor. xiii. 2.

2 Cor. ii. 1.

I Cor. v. I.

Deut. xix. 13.

I Cor. ix. 2.

for in nothing was I behind the very chief
apostles, though I am nothing. Truly the signs 12
of an apostle were wrought among you in all
patience, by signs, and wonders, and mighty
works. For, what was it wherein ye were made 13
inferior to the other churches, unless it was that
I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive
me this wrong!

Lo, this third time I am ready to come to you; 14
and I will not be burdensome, for I seek not
yours, but you; for the children ought not to
lay up for the parents, but the parents for the
children. And I will most gladly spend, and be 15
wholly spent, for your souls.
If I love you

more abundantly, am I loved the less?

But be it so, that I myself burdened you not; 16 nevertheless being crafty, I caught you with guile. Did I make a gain of you by any one of those 17 whom I have sent to you? I exhorted Titus, 18 and with him I sent the brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? yea, in the same steps?

are 19

All this time ye are thinking that we excusing ourselves to you. We speak before GOD in Christ, but all things, dearly beloved, are for your edifying. For I fear that, when I 20 come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as ye would not; that there will be strife, envying, wraths, intrigues, slanderings, whisperings, conceits, tumults; and that, when I come, my GOD will 21 humble me again before you, and that I may have to bewail many of those who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

THIS is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established. I have forewarned, and, as when I was present the second time, so in my absence I now forewarn those who heretofore have sinned, and all others, that if I come again, I will not spare, since ye seek a proof of Christ's speaking by me; for he is not weak

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he was even crucified through weakness, yet he
liveth through the power of GOD. For we also
are weak in him, yet we shall live with him
through the power of GOD towards you.

Try yourselves whether ye are in the faith; 1 Cor. xi. 28. prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to

your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? un

6 less indeed ye are reprobate. But I trust that 7 ye will know that we are not reprobate.

Now we pray to GOD that ye do no evil; not that we would appear approved, but that ye may do that which is honourable, though we be as if repro

8 bate. For we can do nothing against the truth, Pro. xxi. 30. 9 but for the truth. For we rejoice whenever we are weak, and ye are strong; and for this we 10 pray, even your perfecting. Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

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FINALLY, brethren, farewell.

Be perfected,

be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace;

and the GOD of love and peace will be with you. Rom. xii. 16. 12, 13 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the

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saints salute you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Rom. xvi. 24. love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Acts ix. 6.

John x. 17.

2 Cor. xi. 4.

Deut. iv. 2.

Eph. iii. 3.

THE EPISTLE TO THE

GALATIANS

PAUL, an apostle (not from men, neither I 1

through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead), and all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

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Grace be to you and peace from GOD our Father; and from the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our GOD and Father; to whom be glory 5 for ever. Amen.

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I marvel that ye are so soon falling away from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, falling away unto a different gospel-which is no new gospel; only there are some who trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But if even we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any other gospel than that which we preached to you, let such be accursed. As we have said before, so I say now again, If any one preach to you any other gospel than that which ye received, let him be accursed. For am I now 10 conciliating men, or GOD? or do I seek to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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For I make known to you, brethren, that the II gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For neither did I receive it from 12 man, nor was I taught it, except by revelation from Jesus Christ. For ye have heard of my 13 manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion (a), how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of GOD, and made havoc of it; and advanced in the Jews' religion (a) above 14

(a) Gr. Judaism.

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many of my own age in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of Acts xxii. 3. 15 my fathers. But when He-who, from my mother's womb, set me apart and called me by 16 His grace was pleased to reveal His Son in me 2 Cor. iv. 6. that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I consulted not with flesh and

17 blood; neither went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and afterwards returned to Damas18 cus. Then after three years I went up to Jeru- Acts ix. 26. salem to visit Cephas (a); and I abode with him 19 fifteen days. But I saw no other of the apostles, 20 but only James, the Lord's brother. Now, of

the things which I write to you, behold, before 21 GOD I lie not. Afterwards I went into the re22 gions of Syria and Cilicia; and was unknown by

face to the churches of Judæa which are in 23 Christ; they had heard only, that "he who per- Acts ix. 30. secuted us in times past now preacheth the faith

24 of which once he made havoc. And they glorified GOD in me.

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Then, after fourteen years, I again went up Acts xv. 2.
to Jerusalem, with Barnabas, taking Titus also
2 with me. And I went up by revelation, and
communicated to them the gospel which I
preach among the Gentiles; but privately, to
those who were of repute, lest by any means I Phil. ii. 16.
3 should run or had run in vain. But not even
Titus who was with me, though a Greek, was
4 compelled to be circumcised; and this because
of the false brethren privily brought in; for they Acts xv. 1.
came in privily to spy out our liberty which we
have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us
5 into bondage. But to them-that the truth of
the gospel might continue with you-we, even

6 for an hour, yielded not submission. But from Deut. x. 17.
those who were counted to be somewhat, (what-
soever they were, it maketh no difference to me;
GOD accepteth no man's person;)-I say that
those who were so counted imparted nothing to
7 me; but on the contrary, when they saw that
the gospel of the Uncircumcision was committed
to me, as that of the Circumcision was to Peter;
(a) i.e. Peter.

Matt. xvi. 18.

Acts xi. 30.

Acts xi. 3.

Gal. ii. 5.

Psa cxliii. 2.

I John iii. 9.

I Thess. v. 10.

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(for he who wrought effectually for Peter to the
apostleship of the Circumcision, the same
wrought also for me towards the Gentiles); and
when James, Cephas, and John, who were
counted as pillars, perceived the grace bestowed
upon me, they gave to me and Barnabas the
right hands of fellowship, that we might go to
the Gentiles, and they to the Circumcision. Only 10
they desired that we should remember the poor;
which very thing I also was zealous to do.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I with- 11
stood him to his face, because he was self-
condemned. For until certain persons came from 12
James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but
when they had come, he began to withdraw and
to separate himself, fearing those who were of
the Circumcision. And the rest of the Jews 13
likewise dissembled with him, insomuch that
even Barnabas was carried away with their dis-
simulation. But when I saw that they walked 14
not uprightly according to the truth of the gos-
pel, I said to Cephas before them all, If thou,
who art a Jew, livest as the Gentiles live and
not as the Jews do, how is it that thou com-
pellest the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We 15
who are by nature Jews, and not sinners from
among the Gentiles—yet knowing that a man 16
is not justified by works of law but only through
faith in Christ Jesus-even we believed on
Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith
in Christ, and not by works of law; for by works
of law no flesh will be justified. But if, while 17
seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves
also were found sinners, is therefore Christ a
minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build up 18
again the things which I pulled down, I prove
myself a transgressor. For I through law died 19
unto law, that I might live to GOD. I have been 20
crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who
live, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which
I now live in the flesh I live in faith, faith in the
Son of GOD, in him who loved me and gave him-
self up for me.
I do not make void the grace of 21
GOD; for if righteousness comes through law,
then Christ died in vain.