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14 For we stretch not ourselves too far, as though we reached not to you: (for we came even as far as to you in preaching the gospel of Christ ;) 15 not boasting of things without measure, that is, in the labours of other men; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be abundantly enlarged among you, as concerning our line; 16 so as to preach the gospel in the parts beyond you, and not to boast in another's line of things made ready for us. 17 But he who boasteth, let him boast in the Lord. 18 For not he who commendeth himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commendeth.

though rude in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; but on every occasion we have been made manifest to you in all things.

7 Have I committed an offence in humbling myself, that ye might be exalted; inasmuch as I have preached to you the gospel of God without cost? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them, that I might minister to you: 9 and when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no one: for that which was wanted by me, the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and in every thing, I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will still keep myself.

CH. XI. 1 I WISH that ye would bear with me a little in this foolishness: and indeed bear with me. 2 For I am jealous of you, with a godly jea-gions of Achaia. 11 Why? belousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you, as a chaste virgin, to Christ. 3 But I fear lest, that as the serpent deceived Eve by his subtilty, [so] your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in 13 For such are false aposChrist. 4 For if he who cometh tles, deceitful workmen, transamong you, preach another Je-forming themselves into apossus, whom we have not preach-tles of Christ. 14 And no woned, or if ye receive another der: for the adversary also, spirit, which ye have not re-transformeth himself into ceived, or another gospel, messenger of light. 15 It is which ye have not accepted, nevertheless ye might well bear with me.

10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine cannot be stopped in the re

cause I love you not? God i
knoweth otherwise. 12 But what
I do, that will I still do; so as
to cut off occasion from those
who desire occasion; that,
wherein they boast, they may
be found even as we.

5 For I suppose that I am in nothing inferior to the very greatest of the apostles. 6 For

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therefore no great thing, if his ministers, also, transform themselves as ministers of righteousness: whose end will be according to their works. 16 I say again; Let no one think

east as a fool, bear with me, that I also may boast a little. 17 What I speak, in this confiHent boasting, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness.

me foolish: but if otherwise, at | in dangers among false brethren; 27 [in] labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides the things which are without, the troubles which assail me daily, in the care of all the churches.

29 Who is weak, and I am

18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. 19 For ye gladly bear with the foolish, since ye your-not weak? who falleth away, selves are wise. 20 For ye bear and I burn not? 30 If I must with it, if any one bring you needs boast, I will boast of the which concern my into slavery, if any one devour things 31 The God and you, if any one take of you, if weakness. Lord Jesus any one exalt himself, if any one smite you on the face. 21 As concerning dishonour, I say that we have been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I also am bold.

Father of our
Christ, who is blessed to the
ages, knoweth that I speak not
falsely.

hands.

32 In Damascus, the governor under king Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes, 22 Are they Hebrews? so [desiring] to apprehend me: let down, in am I. Are they Israelites? so 33 and I was am I. Are they Abraham's off-a basket, through a window spring? so am I. 23 Are they in the wall; and escaped his ministers of Christ? (I speak as one void of reason,) I am more; in labours, more abundant; in stripes, far exceeding; in prisons, more frequent; in deaths, often. 24 (Five times I received from the Jews forty stripes except one. 25 Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I floated in the deep.) I have been in journeys often, 26 in dangers from floods, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from the gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the desert, in dangers on the sea,

CH. XII. 1 Doubtless it is not expedient for me to boast. Yet I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ,* who, fourteen years ago, was caught up to the third heaven: (wheknow ther in the body, I not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth.) 3 And I know respecting this man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not, God knoweth,) 4 that he

was caught up to paradise, and heard unspeakable words which it is not possible for man to utter. 5 Of

* i. e. a disciple of Christ.

such an one I will boast: but| of myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

13 For what is it wherein ye have been inferior to other churches, unless it be that I 6 For if I were willing to myself was not burdensome to boast, I should not be foolish; you? forgive me this wrong. for I should speak the truth: 14 Behold, a third time, I am but I forbear, lest any one ready to come to you; and I should think concerning me will not be burdensome to you: above what he seeth me to be, for I seek not yours, but you. or what he heareth from me. 7 For the children ought not to And lest I should be too much lay up for the parents, but the exalted, by the exceeding great-parents for the children. 15 ness of God's revelations, there And I will very gladly spend, hath been given me a thorn and be altogether spent for in the flesh, an angel-adver-you: though loving you most sary to buffet me, [lest, I say, abundantly, I am less loved I should be too much exalted.] by you.

8 Concerning this, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he said to me, "My favour is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

10 I take pleasure therefore in weaknesses, in shameful treatment, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for the sake of Christ: for when I am weak, then I am strong. 11 I am become foolish: ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been recommended by you for in nothing am I inferior to the chief of the apostles, though I am nothing. 12 The signs indeed of an apostle have been wrought among you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

16 But be it so: "I did not burden you; nevertheless, being crafty I caught you with guile," 17 Did I overreach you through any of those whom I sent to you? 18 I desired Titus to go; and, with him, I sent a brother. Did Titus in any way overreach you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

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19 THINK уe that we again defend ourselves to you? speak before God in Christ : and we do all things, beloved, for your edification.

20 For I fear lest, when I come, I may not find you such as I would, and lest I may be found by you such as ye would not: lest there be contentions, envyings, wrath, strife, evilspeakings, whisperings, swellings, disturbances: 21 and lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you,

In the original, an angel-satan. "The best commentators," says Mr. Farmer, "suppose that the bodily affliction, or thorn in the flesh, here referred to, was some paralytic symptom." See

Gal. iv. 13.

7 Now I pray to God, that

and I may bewail many who ye will know that we are not have heretofore sinned, and have without proof. not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and las-ye do no evil; I pray not that civiousness, which they have committed.

and ye are strong; [and] for this we pray also, even for your perfection. 10 Wherefore I write these things, being absent; lest, being present, I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me, but to edification, and not to destruction.

we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is good, CH. XIII. 1 This third time, though we should be indeed I am coming to you. By the without proof. 8 For we canmouth of two or three witnes- not do any thing against the ses, every matter shall be estab-truth, but for the truth. 9 For lished. 2 I have told before- we are glad when we are weak, hand, and I again tell beforehand (as present the second time, though now absent) those who have heretofore sinned, and all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare them: 3 since ye seek a proof that Christ speaketh by me, (who towards you is not weakness, but in you is powerful; 4 for though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lived 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 ;) 5 try yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove yourselves. Know ye not concerning your selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless perhaps ye be without proof? 6 But I hope that

11 FINALLY, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of the same mind, live in peace: and the God of love and peace will be with you. 12 Salute one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 14 The favour of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the common fruition of the holy spirit, be with you all.

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE GALATIANS.

CHAP. I.

1 PAUL, an apostle, (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the

Father, who raised him from the dead,*) 2 and all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia: 3 favour

"Not deriving my mission from other apostles, nor even from God by their appointment, but from Jesus Christ himself; and consequently, from God his Father. Here, observe, Jesus

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 age, according to the will of our God and Father; 5 to whom be glory to the ages of ages. Amen.

6 I WONDER that ye are so soon removed from him who called you in the favour [of Christ,] to a different gospel: 7 which indeed is not another; but there are some who trouble you, and desire to alter the gospel of Christ.

behaviour in the Jewish reli gion, that I exceedingly persecuted the church of God, and laid it waste; 14 and made a proficiency in the Jewish religion above many of the same age in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers: 15 but when it pleased [God,] who separated me to the gospel from my mother's womb, and called me through his favour, 16 to reveal his son in me, that I might preach the glad tidings of him among the gentiles; I did not confer immediately with flesh and blood; 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned to Damascus.

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any gospel to you, besides that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.* 9 As we have said already, so I 18 Then, after three years, now say again; If any one I went up to Jerusalem, that I preach any gospel to you be- might see Peter; and abode sides that which ye have re- with him fifteen days. 19 But ceived, let him be accursed.* I saw none other of the apos 10 For, do I now approve my-tles, except James, the Lord's self to men, or to God? or do brother. 20 (Now concerning I seek to please men? [for] if the things which I write to you, I still pleased men, I should behold, in the sight of God, not be a servant of Christ. I lie not.) 21 Afterward, I 11 But I declare to you, went into the regions of Syria brethren, that the gospel and Cilicia; 22 and I was unpreached by me is not accord- known, by face, to the churches ing to man. 12 For I neither of Judea, which were in Christ: received it from man, nor was 23 but they had only heard, I taught it but through the reve-that he who formerly perselation of Jesus Christ.† 13 For cuted us, now preached the ye have heard of my former | faith, which formerly he laid

Christ is distinguished from God, to whom he was subordinate, and by whose power, and not his own, he was raised from the dead." Dr Priestly. "It may also be observed; that the apostle's distinction here is not between a man and a being of a superior order; but between men now living in the world, and who were themselves servants and messengers of Christ, and Jesus Christ himself, who had been raised from the dead, and exalted to be the head and governor of the church." Im. Ver. note.

* Gr. anathema, which signifies a person or thing "separated to destruction." Parkhurst. "One cut off from the congregation of the worshippers of God." Macknight. See 1 Cor. v. 5.

q. d. from no man living upon earth, but from Christ in his exalted state. See note on

ver. 1.

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