it be that I myself was not a burden to you? Behold, this is the third time I am ready to 14 come to you; and I will not be a burden to you : for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. And I will most 15 'Gr. spent out. gladly spend and be 'spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less? But be it so, I did not myself burden 16 you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile. Did I take advantage of you by any one of 17 them whom I have sent unto you? I exhorted 18 Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not by the same Spirit? walked we not in the same steps? 2 Or, Think ye ..you? ... 2 Ye think all this time that we are excusing 19 ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying. For I fear, lest by any means, 20 when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, Or, disorders whisperings, swellings, tumults; lest, when I 21 come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed. This is the third time I am coming to you. 1 13 At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established. I have said before- 2 hand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not 1Many ancient read with. authorities 3 spare; seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not 4 weak, but is powerful in you: for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak 1in him, but we shall live with him through the power 5 of God toward you. Try your own selves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be 6 reprobate. But I hope that ye shall know that 7 we are not reprobate. Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is 8 honourable, though we be as reprobate. For Gr. and that. we can do nothing against the truth, but for 9 the truth. For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even 10 your perfecting. For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down. II be perfected Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be Or, rejoice: comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with 12 you. 13 14 Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the saints salute you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE GALATIANS. 1 Or, a man PAUL, an apostle (not from men, neither 1 1 through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), and all the brethren which are with me, 2 unto the churches of Galatia: Grace to you 3 Some ancient and peace from God the Father, and our Lord read from God Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, 4 that he might deliver us out of this present evil 3world, according to the will of our God and Father: to whom be the glory for ever 5 and ever. Amen. authorities our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 8 3 Or, age I marvel that ye are so quickly removing 6 from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel; which is not another 7 gospel only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But 8 though we, or an angel from heaven, should Some ancient preach unto you any gospel other than that authorities which we preached unto you, let him be anaOr, contrary thema. As we have said before, so say I now 9 omit unto you. to that Gr. bondservant. again, If any man preacheth unto you any For I make known to you, brethren, as I touching the gospel which was preached by me, 12 that it is not after man. For neither did I 1 receive it from 1man, nor was I taught it, but it Or, a man came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and 14 made havock of it: and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of mine own age among Gr. in my my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous race. 15 for the traditions of my fathers. But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother's womb, and called me 16 through his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; 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 away into Arabia; and again I returned unto Damascus. 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him 19 fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I 20 none, save James the Lord's brother. Now touching the things which I write unto you, 21 behold, before God, I lie not. Then I came 22 into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of 23 Judæa which were in Christ: but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made 24 havock; and they glorified God in me. 2 I 3 Or, become acquainted Or, but only 4 with course of Then after the space of fourteen years I 'Or, in the went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, 2 taking Titus also with me. And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any Or, are means I should be running, or had run, in vain. 3 But not even Titus who was with me, being a 6 1 2 Or, are once were Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: 1and 4 was because of that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: to whom we gave place 5 in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. But from those who were reputed to be 6 Or, what they somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man's person) they, I say, who were of repute — imparted nothing to me: nothing to me: but contrariwise, 7 when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the gospel of the circumcision (for he that 8 wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles); and when they perceived the grace 9 that was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision; only 10 they would that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do. But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted 11 him to the face, because he stood condemned. For before that certain came from James, he 12 did eat with the Gentiles: but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision. And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise 13 with him; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation. when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do But 14 |