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BOOK 48

BOOK OF GALATIANS

CHAPTER 1
1 Paul, an apostle, (not
of men, neither by man, but by Jesus
Christ, and God the Father, who
raised him from the dead;)
2 And all the brethren which are
with me, unto the churches of
Galatia:
3 Grace 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 world, according to the
will of God and our Father:
5 To whom be glory for ever and
ever. Amen.
6 I marvel that ye are so soon
removed from him that called you into
the grace of Christ unto another
gospel:
7 Which is not another; but
there be some that trouble you, and
would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel
from heaven, preach any other gospel
unto you than that which we have
preached unto you, let him be
accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I
now again, if any man preach any
other gospel unto you than that ye
have received, let him be accursed.
10 For do I now persuade men, or
God? or do I seek to please men? for
if I yet pleased men, I should not be
the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren,
that the gospel which was preached of
me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of
man, neither was I taught it, but by
the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For ye have heard of my
conversation in time past in the
Jews'religion, how that beyond
measure I persecuted the church of
God, and wasted it:
14 And profited in the
Jews'religion above many my equals in
mine own nation, being more
exceedingly zealous of the traditions
of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God, who
separated me from my mother's womb,
and called me by his grace,
16 To reveal his Son in me, that
I might preach him among the heathen;
immediately I conferred not with
flesh and blood:
17 Neither went I up to
Jerusalem to them which were apostles
before me; but I went into Arabia,
and returned again unto Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went
up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and
abode with him fifteen days.
19 But other of the apostles saw
I none, save James the Lord's
brother.
20 Now the things which I write
unto you, behold, before God, I lie
not.
21 Afterwards I came into the
regions of Syria and Cilicia;
22 And was unknown by face unto
the churches of Judaea which were in
Christ:
23 But they had heard only, That
he which persecuted us in times past
now preacheth the faith which once he
destroyed.
24 And they glorified God in me.

CHAPTER 2
1 Then fourteen years after I
went up again to Jerusalem with
Barnabas, and took Titus with me
also.
2 And I went up by revelation,
and communicated unto them that
gospel which I preach among the
Gentiles, but privately to them which
were of reputation, lest by any means
I should run, or had run, in vain.
3 But neither Titus, who was
with me, being a Greek, was compelled
to be circumcised:
4 And that because of false
brethren unawares brought in, who
came in privily to spy out our
liberty which we have in Christ
Jesus, that they might bring us into
bondage:
5 To whom we gave place by
subjection, no, not for an hour; that
the truth of the gospel might
continue with you.
6 But of these who seemed to be
somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it
maketh no matter to me: God accepteth
no man's person:) for they who seemed
to be somewhat in conference added
nothing to me:
7 But contrariwise, when they
saw that the gospel of the
uncircumcision was committed unto me,
as the gospel of the circumcision was
unto Peter;
8 (For he that wrought
effectually in Peter to the
apostleship of the circumcision, the
same was mighty in me toward the
Gentiles:)
9 And when James, Cephas, and
John, who seemed to be pillars,
perceived the grace that was given
unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas
the right hands of fellowship; that
we should go unto the heathen, and
they unto the circumcision.
10 Only they would that we
should remember the poor; the same
which I also was forward to do.
11 But when Peter was come to
Antioch, I withstood him to the face,
because he was to be blamed.
12 For before that certain came
from James, he did eat with the
Gentiles: but when they were come, he
withdrew and separated himself,
fearing them which were of the
circumcision.
13 And the other Jews dissembled
likewise with him; insomuch that
Barnabas also was carried away with
their dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that they
walked not uprightly according to the
truth of the gospel, I said unto
Peter before them all, If thou, being
a Jew, livest after the manner of
Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why
compellest thou the Gentiles to live
as do the Jews?
15 We who are Jews by nature,
and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16 Knowing that a man is not
justified by the works of the law,
but by the faith of Jesus Christ,
even we have believed in Jesus
Christ, that we might be justified by
the faith of Christ, and not by the
works of the law: for by the works of
the law shall no flesh be justified.
17 But if, while we seek to be
justified by Christ, we ourselves
also are found sinners, is therefore
Christ the minister of sin? God
forbid.
18 For if I build again the
things which I destroyed, I make
myself a transgressor.
19 For I through the law am dead
to the law, that I might live unto
God.
20 I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but
Christ liveth in me: and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live
by the faith of the Son of God, who
loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace
of God: for if righteousness come by
the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

CHAPTER 3
1 O foolish Galatians, who hath
bewitched you, that ye should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes
Jesus Christ hath been evidently set
forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of
you, Received ye the Spirit by the
works of the law, or by the hearing
of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having
begun in the Spirit, are ye now made
perfect by the flesh?
4 Have ye suffered so many
things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
5 He therefore that ministereth
to you the Spirit, and worketh
miracles among you, doeth he it by
the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith?
6 Even as Abraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.
7 Know ye therefore that they
which are of faith, the same are the
children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing
that God would justify the heathen
through faith, preached before the
gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee
shall all nations be blessed.
9 So then they which be of faith
are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the
works of the law are under the curse:
for it is written, Cursed is every
one that continueth not in all things
which are written in the book of the
law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified
by the law in the sight of God, it is
evident: for, The just shall live by
faith.
12 And the law is not of faith:
but, The man that doeth them shall
live in them.
13 Christ 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:
14 That the blessing of Abraham
might come on the Gentiles through
Jesus Christ; that we might receive
the promise of the Spirit through
faith.
15 Brethren, I speak after the
manner of men; Though it be but a
man's covenant, yet if it be
confirmed, no man disannulleth, or
addeth thereto.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed
were the promises made. He saith not,
And to seeds, as of many; but as of
one, And to thy seed, which is
Christ.
17 And this I say, that the
covenant, that was confirmed before
of God in Christ, the law, which was
four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make
the promise of none effect.
18 For if the inheritance be of
the law, it is no more of promise:
but God gave it to Abraham by
promise.
19 Wherefore then serveth the
law? It was added because of
transgressions, till the seed should
come to whom the promise was made;
and it was ordained by angels in the
hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not a
mediator of one, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the
promises of God? God forbid: for if
there had been a law given which
could have given life, verily
righteousness should have been by the
law.
22 But the scripture hath
concluded all under sin, that the
promise by faith of Jesus Christ
might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we
were kept under the law, shut up unto
the faith which should afterwards be
revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our
schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,
that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come,
we are no longer under a
schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children
of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have
been baptized into Christ have put on
Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither bond nor
free, there is neither male nor
female: for ye are all one in Christ
Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then
are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise.

CHAPTER 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as
long as he is a child, differeth
nothing from a servant, though he be
lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and
governors until the time appointed of
the father.
3 Even so we, when we were
children, were in bondage under the
elements of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the
time was come, God sent forth his
Son, made of a woman, made under the
law,
5 To redeem them that were under
the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God
hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son
into your hearts, crying, Abba,
Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a
servant, but a son; and if a son,
then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not
God, ye did service unto them which
by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that ye have
known God, or rather are known of
God, how turn ye again to the weak
and beggarly elements, whereunto ye
desire again to be in bondage?
10 Ye observe days, and months,
and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I
have bestowed upon you labour in
vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be
as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have
not injured me at all.
13 Ye know how through infirmity
of the flesh I preached the gospel
unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was
in my flesh ye despised not, nor
rejected; but received me as an angel
of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 Where is then the blessedness
ye spake of? for I bear you record,
that, if it had been possible, ye
would have plucked out your own eyes,
and have given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your
enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you,
but not well; yea, they would exclude
you, that ye might affect them.
18 But it is good to be
zealously affected always in a good
thing, and not only when I am present
with you.
19 My little children, of whom I
travail in birth again until Christ
be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with
you now, and to change my voice; for
I stand in doubt of you.
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be
under the law, do ye not hear the
law?
22 For it is written, that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a
bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the
bondwoman was born after the flesh;
but he of the freewoman was by
promise.
24 Which things are an allegory:
for these are the two covenants; the
one from the mount Sinai, which
gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai
in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem
which now is, and is in bondage with
her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above
is free, which is the mother of us
all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice,
thou barren that bearest not; break
forth and cry, thou that travailest
not: for the desolate hath many more
children than she which hath an
husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac
was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born
after the flesh persecuted him that
was born after the Spirit, even so it
is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the
scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and
her son: for the son of the bondwoman
shall not be heir with the son of the
freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not
children of the bondwoman, but of the
free.

CHAPTER 5
1 Stand fast therefore in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
free, and be not entangled again with
the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you,
that if ye be circumcised, Christ
shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every
man that is circumcised, that he is a
debtor to do the whole law.
4 Christ is become of no effect
unto you, whosoever of you are
justified by the law; ye are fallen
from grace.
5 For we through the Spirit wait
for the hope of righteousness by
faith.
6 For in Jesus Christ neither
circumcision availeth any thing, nor
uncircumcision; but faith which
worketh by love.
7 Ye did run well; who did
hinder you that ye should not obey
the truth?
8 This persuasion cometh not of
him that calleth you.
9 A little leaven leaveneth the
whole lump.
10 I have confidence in you
through the Lord, that ye will be
none otherwise minded: but he that
troubleth you shall bear his
judgment, whosoever he be.
11 And I, brethren, if I yet
preach circumcision, why do I yet
suffer persecution? then is the
offence of the cross ceased.
12 I would they were even cut
off which trouble you.
13 For, brethren, ye have been
called unto liberty; only use not
liberty for an occasion to the flesh,
but by love serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled
in one word, even in this; Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself.
15 But if ye bite and devour one
another, take heed that ye be not
consumed one of another.
16 This I say then, Walk in the
Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the
lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against
the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh: and these are contrary the
one to the other: so that ye cannot
do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the
Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh
are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance, emulations, wrath, strife,
seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such
like: of the which I tell you before,
as I have also told you in time past,
that they which do such things shall
not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against
such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's
have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let
us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not be desirous of
vainglory, provoking one another,
envying one another.

CHAPTER 6
1 Brethren, if a man be
overtaken in a fault, ye which are
spiritual, restore such an one in the
spirit of meekness; considering
thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
2 Bear ye one another's burdens,
and so fulfil the law of Christ.
3 For if a man think himself to
be something, when he is nothing, he
deceiveth himself.
4 But let every man prove his
own work, and then shall he have
rejoicing in himself alone, and not
in another.
5 For every man shall bear his
own burden.
6 Let him that is taught in the
word communicate unto him that
teacheth in all good things.
7 Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his
flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption; but he that soweth to the
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life
everlasting.
9 And let us not be weary in
well doing: for in due season we
shall reap, if we faint not.
10 As we have therefore
opportunity, let us do good unto all
men, especially unto them who are of
the household of faith.
11 Ye see how large a letter I
have written unto you with mine own
hand.
12 As many as desire to make a
fair shew in the flesh, they
constrain you to be circumcised; only
lest they should suffer persecution
for the cross of Christ.
13 For neither they themselves
who are circumcised keep the law; but
desire to have you circumcised, that
they may glory in your flesh.
14 But God forbid that I should
glory, save in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom the world is
crucified unto me, and I unto the
world.
15 For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision availeth any thing, nor
uncircumcision, but a new creature.
16 And as many as walk according
to this rule, peace be on them, and
mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
17 From henceforth let no man
trouble me: for I bear in my body the
marks of the Lord Jesus.
18 Brethren, the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit. Amen.