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

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1:1 Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but
 through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him
 out of 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 did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us
 out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even
 our Father,
1:5 to whom [is] the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.
1:6 I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did
 call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;
1:7 that is not another, except there be certain who are
 troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the
 Christ;
1:8 but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim
 good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you --
 anathema let him be!
1:9 as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you
 may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive --
 anathema let him be!
1:10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please
 men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should
 not be.
1:11 And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were
 proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,
1:12 for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught
 [it], but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,
1:13 for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that
 exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting
 it,
1:14 and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in
 mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers'
 deliverances,
1:15 and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from
 the womb of my mother, and having called [me] through His
 grace --
1:16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good
 news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh
 and blood,
1:17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles
 before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to
 Damascus,
1:18 then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire
 about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,
1:19 and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the
 brother of the Lord.
1:20 And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie
 not;
1:21 then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,
1:22 and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that
 [are] in Christ,
1:23 and only they were hearing, that `he who is persecuting us
 then, doth now proclaim good news -- the faith that then he was
 wasting;'
1:24 and they were glorifying God in me.
2:1 Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with
 Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;
2:2 and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good
 news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those
 esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;
2:3 but not even Titus, who [is] with me, being a Greek, was
 compelled to be circumcised --
2:4 and [that] because of the false brethren brought in
 unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that
 we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under
 bondage,
2:5 to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection,
 that the truth of the good news might remain to you.
2:6 And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever
 they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of
 man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add
 nothing,
2:7 but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted
 with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with [that]
 of the circumcision,
2:8 for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the
 circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,
2:9 and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and
 Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right
 hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that
 we to the nations, and they to the circumcision [may go],
2:10 only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I
 was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.
2:11 And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up
 against him, because he was blameworthy,
2:12 for before the coming of certain from James, with the
 nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing
 and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,
2:13 and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that
 also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.
2:14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the
 truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou,
 being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in
 the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to
 Judaize?
2:15 we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,
2:16 having known also that a man is not declared righteous by
 works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we
 in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared
 righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law,
 wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no
 flesh.'
2:17 And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we
 ourselves also were found sinners, [is] then Christ a
 ministrant of sin? let it not be!
2:18 for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a
 transgressor I set myself forth;
2:19 for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;
2:20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I,
 and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the
 flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me
 and did give himself for me;
2:21 I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness
 [be] through law -- then Christ died in vain.
3:1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey
 the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described
 before among you crucified?
3:2 this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the
 Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?
3:3 so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in
 the flesh do ye end?
3:4 so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in
 vain.
3:5 He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and
 working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the
 hearing of faith [is it]?
3:6 according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to
 him -- to righteousness;
3:7 know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of
 Abraham,
3:8 and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth
 declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news
 to Abraham --
3:9 `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of
 faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,
3:10 for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for
 it hath been written, `Cursed [is] every one who is not
 remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of
 the Law -- to do them,'
3:11 and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is
 evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'
3:12 and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them
 shall live in them.'
3:13 Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having
 become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is
 every one who is hanging on a tree,'
3:14 that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in
 Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive
 through the faith.
3:15 Brethren, as a man I say [it], even of man a confirmed
 covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,
3:16 and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed;
 He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one,
 `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;
3:17 and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to
 Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after,
 doth not set aside, to make void the promise,
3:18 for if by law [be] the inheritance, [it is] no more by
 promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant [it].
3:19 Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was
 added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been
 made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand
 of a mediator --
3:20 and the mediator is not of one, and God is one --
3:21 the law, then, [is] against the promises of God? -- let it
 not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive,
 truly by law there would have been the righteousness,
3:22 but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the
 promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those
 believing.
3:23 And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being
 kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,
3:24 so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ,
 that by faith we may be declared righteous,
3:25 and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor
 are we,
3:26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ
 Jesus,
3:27 for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;
3:28 there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant
 nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are
 one in Christ Jesus;
3:29 and if ye [are] of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and
 according to promise -- heirs.
4:1 And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth
 nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,
4:2 but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of
 the father,
4:3 so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the
 world were in servitude,
4:4 and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His
 Son, come of a woman, come under law,
4:5 that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of
 sons we may receive;
4:6 and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of
 His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'
4:7 so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son,
 also an heir of God through Christ.
4:8 But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude
 to those not by nature gods,
4:9 and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God
 -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which
 anew ye desire to be in servitude?
4:10 days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!
4:11 I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.
4:12 Become as I [am] -- because I also [am] as ye brethren, I
 beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,
4:13 and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did
 proclaim good news to you at the first,
4:14 and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor
 reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as
 Christ Jesus;
4:15 what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if
 possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to
 me;
4:16 so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
4:17 they are zealous for you -- [yet] not well, but they wish
 to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;
4:18 and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good,
 at all times, and not only in my being present with you;
4:19 my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till
 Christ may be formed in you,
4:20 and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change
 my voice, because I am in doubt about you.
4:21 Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye
 not hear?
4:22 for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by
 the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,
4:23 but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh
 hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the
 promise;
4:24 which things are allegorized, for these are the two
 covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing
 forth, which is Hagar;
4:25 for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth
 correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude
 with her children,
4:26 and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother
 of us all,
4:27 for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not
 bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing,
 because many [are] the children of the desolate -- more than of
 her having the husband.'
4:28 And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,
4:29 but as then he who was born according to the flesh did
 persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;
4:30 but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant
 and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir
 with the son of the free-woman;'
4:31 then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but
 the free-woman's.
5:1 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free --
 stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
5:2 lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ
 shall profit you nothing;
5:3 and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a
 debtor to do the whole law;
5:4 ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared
 righteous; from the grace ye fell away;
5:5 for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do
 wait for,
5:6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything,
 nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
5:7 Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the
 truth?
5:8 the obedience [is] not of him who is calling you!
5:9 a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;
5:10 I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye
 will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you
 shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
5:11 And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am
 I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been
 done away;
5:12 O that even they would cut themselves off who are
 unsettling you!
5:13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the
 freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love
 serve ye one another,
5:14 for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou
 shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'
5:15 and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye
 may not by one another be consumed.
5:16 And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the
 flesh ye may not complete;
5:17 for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the
 Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to
 another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not
 do;
5:18 and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.
5:19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are:
 Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
5:20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths,
 rivalries, dissensions, sects,
5:21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such
 like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that
 those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
5:22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace,
 long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
5:23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
5:24 and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the
 affections, and the desires;
5:25 if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may
 walk;
5:26 let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking,
 one another envying!
6:1 Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye
 who [are] spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness,
 considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;
6:2 of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law
 of the Christ,
6:3 for if any one doth think [himself] to be something -- being
 nothing -- himself he doth deceive;
6:4 and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to
 himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to
 the other,
6:5 for each one his own burden shall bear.
6:6 And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who
 is instructing -- in all good things.
6:7 Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow
 -- that also he shall reap,
6:8 because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh
 shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of
 the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
6:9 and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at
 the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;
6:10 therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the
 good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the
 faith.
6:11 Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my
 own hand;
6:12 as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the
 flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for
 the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,
6:13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law,
 but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they
 may glory.
6:14 And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross
 of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath
 been crucified, and I to the world;
6:15 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything,
 nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;
6:16 and as many as by this rule do walk -- peace upon them, and
 kindness, and on the Israel of God!
6:17 Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of
 the Lord Jesus in my body do bear.
6:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with your spirit,
 brethren! Amen.