1 PAUL, an ^aapostle , (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 ^agave himself for our sins, that he might ^bdeliver us from this present evil world, according to the ^cwill of God and our Father:
 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 6 I marvel that ye are so soon ^aremoved from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another ^bgospel :
 7 Which is not another; but there be some that ^atrouble you, and would ^bpervert the ^cgospel of Christ.
 8 But though we, or an ^aangel from heaven, preach any ^bother ^cgospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be ^daccursed .
 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other ^agospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be ^baccursed .
 10 For do I now ^apersuade men, or God? or do I seek to ^bplease men? for if I yet ^cpleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
 11 But I ^acertify you, brethren, that the gospel which was ^bpreached of me is not after man.
 12 For I neither received it ^aof man, neither was I taught it, but ^bby the ^crevelation of Jesus Christ.
 13 For ye have heard of my ^aconversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I ^bpersecuted the church of God, and ^cwasted it:
 14 And ^aprofited in the Jews’ religion above many ^bmy equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly ^czealous of the ^dtraditions of my fathers.
 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his ^agrace ,
 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the ^aheathen ; immediately I conferred not with ^bflesh 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 ^aJerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
 19 But other of the ^aapostles saw I none, save ^bJames the Lord’s ^cbrother .
 20 Now the things which I ^awrite 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.

 1 THEN fourteen years after I went up again to ^aJerusalem with ^bBarnabas , and took Titus with me also.
 2 And I went up by ^arevelation , and ^bcommunicated 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 ^acircumcised :
 4 ^aAnd that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our ^bliberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into ^cbondage :
 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 ^agospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the ^bcircumcision was unto ^cPeter ;
 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, ^aCephas , and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the ^bgrace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of ^cfellowship ; that we should go unto the ^dheathen , 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 ^adissimulation .
 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 ^ajustified by the works of the ^blaw , but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the ^cfaith of Christ, and not by the ^dworks of the ^elaw : for by the works of the law shall no flesh be ^fjustified .
 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 ^adead to the law, that I might ^blive unto God.
 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but ^aChrist ^bliveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the ^cfaith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
 21 I do not frustrate the ^agrace of God: for if righteousness come by the ^blaw , then Christ is dead in vain.

 1 O FOOLISH Galatians, who hath ^abewitched 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 ^alaw , or by the ^bhearing 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 ^aministereth 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 ^arighteousness .
 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the ^achildren of Abraham.
 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the ^aheathen through faith, preached before the ^bgospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all ^cnations be ^dblessed .
 9 So then they which be of faith are ^ablessed with faithful Abraham.
 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, ^aCursed 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 ^afaith .
 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
 13 Christ hath ^aredeemed us from the ^bcurse of the ^claw , being made a curse for us: for it is written, ^dCursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
 14 That the ^ablessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through ^bJesus Christ; that we might receive the ^cpromise 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 ^aAbraham and his seed were the ^bpromises 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 ^afour hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
 18 For if the ^ainheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
 19 ^aWherefore then serveth the law? It was ^badded 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 ^asin , 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 ^alaw was our ^bschoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be ^cjustified by faith.
 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
 26 For ye are all the ^achildren of God by ^bfaith in Christ Jesus.
 27 For as many of you as have been ^abaptized into Christ have put on Christ.
 28 There is neither Jew nor ^aGreek , there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all ^bone in Christ Jesus.
 29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye ^aAbraham ’s ^bseed , and ^cheirs according to the promise.

 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 ^abondage under the elements of the world:
 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God ^asent forth his ^bSon , ^cmade of a ^dwoman , made under the law,
 5 To ^aredeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the ^badoption 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 ^aservant , but a ^bson ; and if a son, then an ^cheir of God through Christ.
 8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye ^adid ^bservice unto them which by nature are no ^cgods .
 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 ^abondage ?
 10 Ye observe ^adays , and months, and times, and years.
 11 I am afraid ^aof 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 ^ainfirmity of the ^bflesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
 14 And my ^atemptation 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 ^atruth ?
 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 ^azealously 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 ^astand 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 ^abondmaid , 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 ^abondage , which is ^bAgar .
 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 ^aJerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
 27 For it is written, ^aRejoice , thou ^bbarren 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 ^achildren of promise.
 29 But as then he that was born after the ^aflesh ^bpersecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
 30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? ^aCast 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.

 1 ^aSTAND fast therefore in the ^bliberty wherewith Christ hath made us ^cfree , and be not ^dentangled again with the yoke of ^ebondage .
 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 ^acircumcised , 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 ^alaw ; ye are fallen from ^bgrace .
 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by ^afaith .
 6 For in Jesus Christ neither ^acircumcision ^bavaileth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but ^cfaith which worketh by ^dlove .
 7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not ^aobey the truth?
 8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
 9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
 10 I have ^aconfidence in you through the Lord, that ye ^bwill be none otherwise minded: but he that ^ctroubleth 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 ^aoffence of the cross ceased.
 12 I would they were even ^acut off which ^btrouble you.
 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto ^aliberty ; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love ^bserve one another.
 14 For all the ^alaw is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt ^blove 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, ^aWalk in the ^bSpirit , and ye shall not fulfil the ^clust of the flesh.
 17 For the flesh lusteth against the ^aSpirit , 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 ^aled of the Spirit, ye are not under the ^blaw .
 19 Now the works of the ^aflesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, ^bfornication , ^cuncleanness , lasciviousness,
 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, ^astrife , seditions, heresies,
 21 ^aEnvyings , murders, ^bdrunkenness , ^crevellings , 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 ^afruit of the ^bSpirit is ^clove , ^djoy , ^epeace , ^flongsuffering , ^ggentleness , goodness, ^hfaith ,
 23 ^aMeekness , ^btemperance : against such there is no law.
 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the ^aaffections and lusts.
 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, ^aprovoking one another, envying one another.

 1 BRETHREN, if a man be ^aovertaken in a ^bfault , ye which are spiritual, ^crestore such an one in the spirit of meekness; ^dconsidering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
 2 Bear ye one another’s ^aburdens , 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 ^aprove his own ^bwork , and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
 5 For every man shall ^abear his own burden.
 6 Let him that is taught in the word ^acommunicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
 7 Be not ^adeceived ; God is not ^bmocked : for whatsoever a man ^csoweth , that shall he also ^dreap .
 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 ^aweary in well doing: for in due season we shall ^breap , if we faint not.
 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do ^agood 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 ^apersecution 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 ^acircumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, ^apeace 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.