Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/darby.lzh/GA.LZH/GA

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1:1 Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through
 Jesus Christ, and God [the] Father who raised him from among
 [the] dead,
1:2 and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia.
1:3 Grace to you, and peace, from God [the] Father, and our Lord
 Jesus Christ,
1:4 who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us
 out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God
 and Father;
1:5 to whom [be] glory to the ages of ages. Amen.
1:6 I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called
 you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,
1:7 which is not another [one]; but there are some that trouble
 you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.
1:8 But if even *we* or an angel out of heaven announce as glad
 tidings to you [anything] besides what we have announced as
 glad tidings to you, let him be accursed.
1:9 As we have said before, now also again I say, If any one
 announce to you as glad tidings [anything] besides what ye have
 received, let him be accursed.
1:10 For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to
 please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's
 bondman.
1:11 But I let you know, brethren, [as to] the glad tidings
 which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.
1:12 For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I
 taught [them], but by revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:13 For ye have heard [what was] my conversation formerly in
 Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and
 ravaged it;
1:14 and advanced in Judaism beyond many [my] contemporaries in
 my nation, being exceedingly zealous of the doctrines of my
 fathers.
1:15 But when God, who set me apart [even] from my mother's
 womb, and called [me] by his grace,
1:16 was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce
 him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not
 counsel with flesh and blood,
1:17 nor went I up to Jerusalem to those [who were] apostles
 before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to
 Damascus.
1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make
 acquaintance with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days;
1:19 but I saw none other of the apostles, but James the brother
 of the Lord.
1:20 Now what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.
1:21 Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
1:22 But I was unknown personally to the assemblies of Judaea
 which [are] in Christ;
1:23 only they were hearing that he who persecuted us formerly
 now announces the glad tidings of the faith which formerly he
 ravaged:
1:24 and they glorified God in me.
2:1 Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to
 Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with [me];
2:2 and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before
 them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but
 privately to those conspicuous [among them], lest in any way I
 run or had run in vain;
2:3 (but neither was Titus, who was with me, being a Greek,
 compelled to be circumcised;)
2:4 and [it was] on account of the false brethren brought in
 surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our
 liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us
 into bondage;
2:5 to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that
 the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.
2:6 But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat --
 whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does
 not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous
 communicated nothing;
2:7 but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the
 uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of
 the circumcision,
2:8 (for he that wrought in Peter for [the] apostleship of the
 circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)
2:9 and recognising the grace given to me, James and Cephas and
 John, who were conspicuous as being pillars, gave to me and
 Barnabas [the] right hands of fellowship, that *we* [should go]
 to the nations, and *they* to the circumcision;
2:10 only that we should remember the poor, which same thing
 also I was diligent to do.
2:11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to [the]
 face, because he was to be condemned:
2:12 for before that certain came from James, he ate with [those
 of] the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated
 himself, fearing those of [the] circumcision;
2:13 and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling
 part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by
 their dissimulation.
2:14 But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly,
 according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter
 before all, If *thou*, being a Jew, livest as the nations and
 not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize?
2:15 We, Jews by nature, and not sinners of [the] nations,
2:16 but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of
 works of law [nor] but by the faith of Jesus Christ, *we* also
 have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on
 the principle of [the] faith of Christ; and not of works of
 law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be
 justified.
2:17 Now if in seeking to be justified in Christ we also have
 been found sinners, then [is] Christ minister of sin? Far be
 the thought.
2:18 For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again,
 I constitute myself a transgressor.
2:19 For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to
 God.
2:20 I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but
 Christ lives in me; but [in] that I now live in flesh, I live
 by faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who has loved me and
 given himself for me.
2:21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness
 [is] by law, then Christ has died for nothing.
3:1 O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as
 before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed,
 crucified [among you]?
3:2 This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the
 Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of [the] report of
 faith?
3:3 Are ye so senseless? having begun in Spirit, are ye going to
 be made perfect in flesh?
3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in
 vain?
3:5 He therefore who ministers to you the Spirit, and works
 miracles among you, [is it] on the principle of works of law,
 or of [the] report of faith?
3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as
 righteousness.
3:7 Know then that they that are on the principle of faith,
 these are Abraham's sons;
3:8 and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
 nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the
 glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be
 blessed.
3:9 So that they who are on the principle of faith are blessed
 with believing Abraham.
3:10 For as many as are on the principle of works of law are
 under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does
 not continue in all things which [are] written in the book of
 the law to do them;
3:11 but that by law no one is justified with God [is] evident,
 because The just shall live on the principle of faith;
3:12 but the law is not on the principle of faith; but, He that
 shall have done these things shall live by them.
3:13 Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having
 become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed [is] every
 one hanged upon a tree,)
3:14 that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in
 Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
 through faith.
3:15 Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man's confirmed
 covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to.
3:16 But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his
 seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one,
 And to thy seed; which is Christ.
3:17 Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the
 law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does
 not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
3:18 For if the inheritance [be] on the principle of law, [it
 is] no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in
 grace to Abraham by promise.
3:19 Why then the law? It was added for the sake of
 transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was
 made, ordained through angels in [the] hand of a mediator.
3:20 But a mediator is not of one, but God is one.
3:21 [Is] then the law against the promises of God? Far be the
 thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then
 indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;
3:22 but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that
 the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should
 be given to those that believe.
3:23 But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up
 to faith [which was] about to be revealed.
3:24 So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we
 might be justified on the principle of faith.
3:25 But, faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor;
3:26 for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus.
3:27 For ye, as many as have been baptised unto Christ, have put
 on Christ.
3:28 There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman;
 there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ
 Jesus:
3:29 but if *ye* [are] of Christ, then ye are Abraham's seed,
 heirs according to promise.
4:1 Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs
 nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;
4:2 but he is under guardians and stewards until the period
 fixed by the father.
4:3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage
 under the principles of the world;
4:4 but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth
 his Son, come of woman, come under law,
4:5 that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive
 sonship.
4:6 But because ye are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his
 Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
4:7 So thou art no longer bondman, but son; but if son, heir
 also through God.
4:8 But then indeed, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to
 those who by nature are not gods;
4:9 but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do
 ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye
 desire to be again anew in bondage?
4:10 Ye observe days and months and times and years.
4:11 I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as
 to you.
4:12 Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I
 beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.
4:13 But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the
 glad tidings to you at the first;
4:14 and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not
 slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel
 of God, as Christ Jesus.
4:15 What then [was] your blessedness? for I bear you witness
 that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have
 given [them] to me.
4:16 So I have become your enemy in speaking the truth to you?
4:17 They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut
 you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.
4:18 But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is
 right, and not only when I am present with you --
4:19 my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ
 shall have been formed in you:
4:20 and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my
 voice, for I am perplexed as to you.
4:21 Tell me, ye who are desirous of being under law, do ye not
 listen to the law?
4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons; one of the
 maid servant, and one of the free woman.
4:23 But he [that was] of the maid servant was born according to
 flesh, and he [that was] of the free woman through the promise.
4:24 Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two
 covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is
 Hagar.
4:25 For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to
 Jerusalem which [is] now, for she is in bondage with her
 children;
4:26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not;
 break out and cry, thou that travailest not; because the
 children of the desolate are more numerous than [those] of her
 that has a husband.
4:28 But *ye*, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are
 children of promise.
4:29 But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted
 him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.
4:30 But what says the scripture? Cast out the maid servant and
 her son; for the son of the maid servant shall not inherit with
 the son of the free woman.
4:31 So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but
 [children] of the free woman.
5:1 Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and
 be not held again in a yoke of bondage.
5:2 Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised,
 Christ shall profit you nothing.
5:3 And I witness again to every man [who is] circumcised, that
 he is debtor to do the whole law.
5:4 Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated
 [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen
 from grace.
5:5 For we, by [the] Spirit, on the principle of faith, await
 the hope of righteousness.
5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor
 uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
5:7 Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the
 truth?
5:8 The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.
5:9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
5:10 *I* have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will
 have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the
 guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.
5:11 But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I
 yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done
 away.
5:12 I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw
 you into confusion.
5:13 For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only [do]
 not [turn] liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by
 love serve one another.
5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt
 love thy neighbour as thyself;
5:15 but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not
 consumed one of another.
5:16 But I say, Walk in [the] Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil
 flesh's lust.
5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit
 against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the
 other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;
5:18 but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.
5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
 fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
5:20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers,
 contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
5:21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like
 these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have
 said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit
 God's kingdom.
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
 long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,
5:23 meekness, self-control: against such things there is no
 law.
5:24 But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh
 with the passions and the lusts.
5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.
5:26 Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another,
 envying one another.
6:1 Brethren, if even a man be taken in some fault, ye who are
 spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness,
 considering thyself lest *thou* also be tempted.
6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfil the law of the
 Christ.
6:3 For if any man reputes himself to be something, being
 nothing, he deceives himself;
6:4 but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his
 boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs
 to another.
6:5 For each shall bear his own burden.
6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that
 teaches in all good things.
6:7 Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man shall
 sow, that also shall he reap.
6:8 For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption
 from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit
 shall reap eternal life:
6:9 but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if
 we do not faint, we shall reap.
6:10 So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all,
 and specially towards those of the household of faith.
6:11 See how long a letter I have written to you with my own
 hand.
6:12 As many as desire to have a fair appearance in [the] flesh,
 these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be
 persecuted because of the cross of Christ.
6:13 For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep
 the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may
 boast in your flesh.
6:14 But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our
 Lord Jesus Christ, through whom [the] world is crucified to me,
 and I to the world.
6:15 For [in Christ Jesus] neither is circumcision anything, nor
 uncircumcision; but new creation.
6:16 And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace upon them and
 mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
6:17 For the rest let no one trouble me, for *I* bear in my body
 the brands of the Lord Jesus.
6:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit,
 brethren. Amen.