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The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians

PAUL, a legate, not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus the Messiah, and God his Father, who 2 raised him from the dead; (2) and all the brethren who are with me; unto the churches which are in 3 Galatia. (3) Grace be with you, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Mes4 siah; (4) who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this evil world, agreeably. Sy. Ko 、、 5 to the pleasure of God our Father: (5) to whom

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be glory for ever and ever.

Amen.

I admire, how soon ye have turned from the Messiah, who called you by his grace, unto another 7 gospel; (7) which doth not exist, except as there Sy. are some who would disquiet you, and are disposed 8 to pervert the gospel of the Messiah. (8) But if we, or an angel from heaven, should announce to you differently from what we have announced to 9 you, let him be accursed. (9) As I have just said, Sy. So; and now I again say it, that if any one announce to you differently from what ye received, let him 10 be accursed. (10) For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I had till now pleased men, I should not have been a 11 servant of the Messiah.-(11) But I make known

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to you, my brethren, that the gospeld announced Sy. 12,000 12 by me, was not from man. (12) For I did not re

ceive it and learn it from man, but [I had it] by 13 revelation from Jesus the Messiah. (13) For ye have heard of my former course of life in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God exceedingly, 14 and destroyed it: (14) and that I went much farther in Judaism than many of my contemporaries who were of my nation, and was peculiarly zealous 15 for the doctrine of my fathers. (15) But when it pleased him, who separated me from my mother's

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womb, and called me by his grace, (16) to reveal 16 his Son bye me, that I should proclaim him among the Gentiles; forthwith, I did not open it to flesh and blood; (17) nor did I go to Jerusalem, to them 17 who were legates before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus: (18) and 18 after three years, I went to Jerusalem to see Cephas;f and I remained with him fifteen days. (19) But others of the legates I saw not, except 19 James, our Lord's brother. (20) In the things 20 which I am writing to you, behold, before God! I lie not. (21) And after that, I went to the regions 21 of Syria and Cilicia. (22) And the churches in 22 Judæa which were in the Messiah, did not know me personally:s (23) but this only had they heard, 23 that he who before persecuted us, now preacheth that faith which in time preceding he subverted: or, on account (24) and they glorified God inh me.—(II.) And II. again, after fourteen years, I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas; and I took with me Titus. (2) 2 And I went up by revelation: and I explained to them the gospel which I announce among the Gentiles; and I stated it to them who were esteemed prominent, a between myself and them:b lest I should have run, or might run in vain. (3) Also 3 Titus, who was with me, and was a Gentile, was an Aramaean. not compelled to be circumcised. (4) And in regard to the false brethren, who had crept in to spy out the liberty we have in Jesus the Messiah, in order to bring me under subjection; (5) not for the space of an hour, did we throw ourselves into subjection to them; so that the truth of the gospeld might remain with you. (6) And they who were esteemed prominent,e (what they were, I care not; for God regardeth not the persons of men,)-even these persons added nothing to me. (7) But, other- 7 wise; for they saw, that the gospel of the uncircumcision was intrusted to me, as to Cephasf was intrusted that of the circumcision. (8) For he that 8 was operative with Cephas in the legateship of the circumcision, was also operative with me in the legateship of the Gentiles. (9) And James, Ce- 9 phas, and John, who were accounted pillars, when they perceived the grace that was given to me, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we [should labor] among the Gentiles,

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10 and they among the circumcision. (10) Only [they desired] that we would be mindful of the needy; and I was solicitous to do the same.11 (11) But when Cephass was come to Antioch, I Gr. Peter. rebuked him to his face; because they were stum12 bled by him. (12) For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles: but when they came, he withdrew himself, and separated; because he was afraid of them of the circumcision. 13 (13) And the rest of the Jews also were with him in this thing; insomuch that even Barnabas was 14 induced to regard persons. (14) And when I saw, that they did not walk correctly, in the truth of the gospel,h I said to Cephas, before them all: If Sy. thou art a Jew, and livest in the Gentile way, and o not in the Jewish, why dost thou compel the Gen15 tiles to live in the Jewish way? (15) For if we, who are Jews by nature, and are not sinners of the 16 Gentiles, (16) because we know that a man is not

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made justi by the works of the law, but by faith in or, justified. Jesus the Messiah;-even we have believed in Jesus the Messiah, in order to be made just by faith in the Messiah, and not by the works of the law for, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is made 17 just. (17) And if, while we seek to become just by the Messiah, we are found to be ourselves sinners, is Jesus the Messiah therefore the minister of 18 sin? Far be it! (18) For if I should build up again the things I had demolished, I should show 19 myself to be a transgressor of the precept. (19) For I, by the law, have become dead to the law, that I might live to God; and I am crucified with the 20 Messiah. (20) And henceforth it is no more I who live, but the Messiah liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of 21 God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (21) I do not spurn the grace of God. For if righteousness is by means of the law, the Messiah died in vain.

III. O ye Galatians, deficient in understanding! Who hath fascinated you? For lo, Jesus the Messiah hath been portrayed as in a picture, crucified 2 before your eyes. (2) This only would I learn from you, Was it by works of the law, that ye received the Spirit? or by the hearing of faith?

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(3) Are ye so foolish, that having begun in the 3 Spirit, ye now would consummate in the flesh? (4) And have ye borne all these things in vain? 4 And I would, it were in vain! (5) He therefore 5 who giveth the Spirit in you, and who worketh miraclesa among you, [doth he these things] by the deeds of the law? or by the hearing of faith? (6) In like manner Abraham believed God, and it 6 was accounted to him for righteousness. (7) Know 7 ye, therefore, that those who are of faith, they are the children of Abraham. (8) For, because God 8 knew beforehand that the Gentiles would be made bor, be justified. justb by faith, he preannounced it to Abraham; as saith the holy scripture, In thee shall all nations be blessed. (9) Believers, therefore, it is, who are blessed with believing Abraham. (10) For they 10 who are of the deeds of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who shall not do every thing written in this law. (11) And that no one becometh juste before God, 11 by the law, is manifest: because it is written, The just by faith, shall live.d (12) Now the law is not 12 of faith; but, whoever shall do the things written in it, shall live by them. (13) But the Messiah 13 hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, and hath been a curse for us; (for it is written, Cursed is every one that is hanged on a tree;) (14) that 14 the blessing of Abraham might be on the Gentiles, through Jesus the Messiah; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.-(15) My breth- 15 ren, I speak as among men; a man's covenante which is confirmed, no one setteth aside, or changeth any thing in it. (16) Now to Abraham was 16 the promise made, and to his seed. And it said to him, not, to thy seeds, as being many; but to thy seed, as being one, which is the Messiah. (17) And 17 this I say: That the covenant which was previously confirmed by God in the Messiah, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot set it aside, and nullify the promise. (18) And if the 18 inheritance were by the law, it would not be by promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

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What then is the law? It was added on ac- 19 count of transgression, until that seed should come, to whom belonged the promise: and the Sy. La law was given by angels through a mediator.f

20 (20) Now a mediator is not of one; but God is 21 one. (21) Is the law then opposed to the promise

of God? Far be it. For if a law had been given, which could make alive,s certainly, righ- or, save. 22 teousness would have been by the law. (22) But the scripture hath inclosed all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus the Messiah might be 23 given to them that believe. (23) But before the faith came, the law kept us shut up unto the faith 24 that was to be revealed. (24) The law, therefore, was a monitor for us unto the Messiah, that we 25 might become just by faith. (25) But the faith having come, we are not under the monitor. 26 (26) For ye are all the children of God, by faith in 27 Jesus the Messiah. (27) For they who have been

baptized into the Messiah, have put on the Messiah. 28 (28) There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither

slave nor free-born, neither male nor female; for 29 ye are all one in Jesus the Messiah. (29) And if

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ye are the Messiah's, then are ye the seed of AbraIV ham, and heirs by the promise.-(IV.) But I say, that the heir, so long as he is a child, differeth not 2 from a servant, although he is lord of all; (2) but he is under supervisors and stewards, until the time 3 established by his father. (3) So also we, while we were children, were in subordination under the 4 elements of the world. (4) But when the consum- Sy. mation of the time arrived, God sent forth his Son;= and he was from a woman, and was under the law;

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Gr. ςοιχεία. 5 (5) that he might redeem them that were under the law; and that we might receive the adoption of 6 sons. (6) And, because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, who 7 crieth, Father, our Father.b (7) Wherefore, ye Sy. are no longer servants, but sons; and if sons, then 8 heirs of God, through Jesus the Messiah. (8) For then, when ye knew not God, ye served them who 9 in their nature are not gods. (9) But now, since ye have known God,-or rather, have been known by God, ye turn yourselves again to the weak and beggarly elements, and wish again to be under 10 them! (10) Ye observe days and moons, and set 11 times, and years! (11) I am afraid, lest I have 12 labored among you in vain. (12) Be ye like me; because I have been like you.

My brethren, I beseech you. Ye have not in