²And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain.

³But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Gentile, was compelled to be circumcised.

⁴But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude.

⁵To whom we yielded not by subjection: no, not for an hour: that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

⁶But of them who seemed to be some thing, (what they were some time it is nothing to me, God accepteth not the person of man): for to me they that seemed to be some thing added nothing.

⁷But contrariwise, when they had seen that to me was committed the gospel of the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that of the circumcision.

⁸(For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision wrought in me also among the Gentiles.)

⁹And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship: that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision:

¹⁰Only that we should be mindful of the poor: which same thing also I was careful to do.

¹¹But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

¹²For before that some came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcision.

¹³And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented: so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation.

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

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

¹⁶But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

¹⁷But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid!

¹⁸For if I build up again the things which I have destroyed, I make myself a prevaricator.

¹⁹For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

²⁰And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

²¹I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Chapter 3

O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth: before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you?

²This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?

³Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?

⁴Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain.

⁵He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you: doth he do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of the faith?

⁶As it is written: Abraham believed God: and it was reputed to him unto justice.

⁷Know ye, therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

⁸And the scripture, foreseeing that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.

⁹Therefore, they that are of faith shall be blessed with faithful Abraham.

¹⁰For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

¹¹But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: because the just man liveth by faith.

¹²But the law is not of faith: but he that doth those things shall live in them.

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

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

¹⁵Brethren (I speak after the manner of man), yet a man’s testament, if it be confirmed, no man despiseth nor addeth to it.

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

¹⁷Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect.

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

¹⁹Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

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

²¹Was the law then against the promises of God: God forbid! For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.

²²But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.

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

²⁴Wherefore the law was our pedagogue in Christ: that we might be justified by faith.

²⁵But after the faith is come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.

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

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

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

²⁹And if you be Christ’s, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

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