Galatians

and all the brothers with me, To the churches of Galatia:

the One having given Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

I marvel that so quickly you⁺ are deserting from the One having called you⁺ in the grace of Christ to another gospel,

which is not another, except there are some who are troubling you⁺ and are wanting to pervert the gospel of Christ.

But even if we or an angel out of heaven should preach a gospel to you⁺ contrary to what we preached to you⁺, let him be accursed!

As we have said before, even now I say again: If anyone preaches a gospel [to] you⁺ contrary to what you⁺ received, let him be accursed!

For presently do I appease men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

For you⁺ heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism, that according to excess I was persecuting the church of God and was ravaging it.

And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my kindred, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

But when God was well pleased—the One having set me apart from the womb of my mother and having called [me] by His grace—

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I conferred not immediately with flesh and blood,

Now the things I write to you⁺, behold before God that I do not lie.

even because of the false brothers introduced stealthily, who came in stealthily to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they will enslave us,

to whom we did not yield in submission for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you⁺.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed [him] to his face because he was standing condemned.

For before certain ones came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles. But when they came, he was drawing back and was separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision.

And also the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

But when I saw that they are not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before all, “If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how do you compel the Gentiles to Judaize?”

We by nature Jews and not “sinners of the Gentiles,”

are knowing now that a man is not justified by works of the law, except through faith from Jesus Christ. We also believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith from Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law not any flesh will be justified.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And that which I now live in the flesh, I live in faith of the Son of God, the One having loved me and having given up Himself for me.

I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness [is] through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you⁺, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was previously written [as] having been crucified?

Are you⁺ so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you⁺ now finishing in the flesh?

Know, then, that those of faith, these are sons of Abraham.

Now the Scripture, having foreseen that God justifies the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel beforehand to Abraham: “All the nations will be blessed in you.”

So then, those of faith are blessed along with the faithful Abraham.

For as many as are of works of the law, they are under a curse, for it has been written: “Cursed [is] everyone who does not continue in all things having been written in the Book of the Law, to do them.”

Now [it is] evident that no one is justified before God in the law, because, “The righteous will live out of faith.”

But the law is not out of faith; rather, “The one having done these things will live in them.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us—for it has been written: “Cursed [is] everyone hanging on a tree,”

so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. It does not say “and to seeds,” as of many, but as of One, “and to your seed,” who is Christ.

Now the mediator is not of one; but God is one.

[Is] the law, therefore, contrary to the promises of God? Never may it be! For if a law were given being able to make alive, then righteousness indeed would have been from out of the law.

But the Scripture shut in all things under sin, so that by faith from Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those believing.

so that the law has become our tutor unto Christ, so that we might be justified by faith.

For you⁺ are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

For as many of you⁺ as were baptized into Christ, you⁺ put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male and female; for you⁺ are all one in Christ Jesus.

Now if you⁺ [are] of Christ, then you⁺ are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise.

Now I say, for as long a time as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a slave, [though] being lord of all.

But he is under guardians and managers until the appointed time of the father.

So also we, when we were children, were enslaved under the elements of the world.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, having been born of a woman, having been born under the law,

that He might redeem those under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

And because you⁺ are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

So you are no longer a slave but a son; and if a son, also an heir through God.

But then, indeed, not knowing God, you⁺ were in slavery to those by nature not being gods.

But now, having known God, but rather having been known by God, how do you⁺ turn again to the weak and poor elements, to which you⁺ want to be in slavery again anew?

You⁺ observe days and months and seasons and years!

They are zealous for you⁺, not nobly, but they want to exclude you⁺ [from us], so that you⁺ may be zealous for them.

My children, of whom I travail again until that Christ shall have been formed in you⁺,

But just as then the one having been born according to flesh was persecuting the one [born] according to the Spirit, so also [it is] now.

In freedom Christ set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be entangled again in a yoke of slavery.

You⁺ were severed from Christ, whoever are being justified in the law; you⁺ fell away from grace.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any power, but faith working through love.

For you⁺ were called to freedom, brothers, only not the freedom for an opportunity to the flesh. But serve one another through love.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

But if you⁺ bite and devour one another, watch out, lest you⁺ might be consumed by one another.

Now I say, walk by the Spirit, and you⁺ shall never complete the desire [of] the flesh.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. For these are opposed to one another so that the [things] you⁺ may want, these things you⁺ may not do.

But if you⁺ are led by the Spirit, you⁺ are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of rage, rivalries, dissensions, factions,

envies, drunkennesses, carousings, and things like these, as to which I say to you⁺ beforehand, as also I said before, that those doing such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Now those of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and the desires.

We should not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Brothers, even if a man should be overtaken in some trespass, you⁺ the spiritual ones, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking at yourself, lest you also be tempted.

Bear one another’s burdens and thus you⁺ will fulfill the law of Christ.

Now let the one being instructed in the word share with the one instructing in all good things.

Do not be led astray: God is not mocked. For whatever a man may sow, this also he will reap.

And we should not grow fainthearted [in] doing good, for in due time we will reap, not giving up.

So then, as we have opportunity, we should work good toward all, and especially toward those of the household of the faith.

But for me, may it be never to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I [to] the world.