Galatians 3 Cross References - ABU

¹ O FOOLISH Galatians, who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was evidently set forth, crucified among you? ² This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from works of law that ye received the Spirit, or from the hearing of faith? ³ Are ye so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are ye now being made perfect with the flesh? ⁴ Did ye suffer so many things in vain? If indeed it be in vain. ⁵ Does he, therefore, who supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, do it from works of law, or from the hearing of faith? ⁶ As Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness. ⁷ Know then that they who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham. ⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that God justifies the Gentiles by faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham, saying: In thee shall all the nations be blessed. ⁹ So that they who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. ¹⁰ For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it is written: Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them. ¹¹ And that in the law no one is justified with God, is evident; because, the just shall live by faith. ¹² Now the law is not of faith; but, he that has done them shall live in them. ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; because it is written: Cursed is every one that is hanged on a tree; ¹⁴ that unto the Gentiles the blessing of Abraham might come in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. ¹⁵ Brethren, I speak after the manner of men. If a covenant has been confirmed, though it be a man's, no one sets it aside, or adds thereto. ¹⁶ Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He says not, and to seeds, as concerning many; but as concerning one, and to thy seed, which is Christ. ¹⁷ But this I say, that a covenant before confirmed by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, to make the promise of no effect. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance is of law, it is no more of promise; but God has freely given it to Abraham by promise. ¹⁹ What then is the law? It was added because of the transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made; having been ordained through angels, by the hand of a mediator. ²⁰ Now the mediator is not of one; but God is one. ²¹ Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be it! For if a law had been given which is able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been of law. ²² But the Scripture shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. ²³ But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed. ²⁴ So that the law has become our schoolmaster, unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ But faith having come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. ²⁶ For ye are all sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁷ For all ye who were immersed unto Christ, did put on Christ. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.

²⁶ And every one who hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

²⁴ For there will arise false Christs, and false prophets, and will show great signs and wonders; so as, if possible, to lead even the chosen astray. ²⁵ Then he said to them: O foolish, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

⁷ And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

⁹ But a certain man, named Simon, was in the city before, using sorcery, and bewitching the people of Samaria, saying that he was some great one; ¹⁰ to whom all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying: This man is the great power of God. ¹¹ And to him they gave heed, because for a long time they were bewitched by his sorceries.

⁸ but to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that ye were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart that form of teaching which was delivered to you;

¹⁶ But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah says: Lord, who believed our report?

²³ but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling-block, and to Gentiles foolishness, ²⁴ but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

² For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

²⁶ For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye show the Lord's death till he come.

⁵ casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

³ But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from your simplicity toward Christ.

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no great thing then, if also his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

⁶ I marvel that ye are so soon removing from him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel;

¹⁴ But when I saw that they walk not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in the presence of all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles and not that of Jews, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to become as Jews?

³ Are ye so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are ye now being made perfect with the flesh?

⁹ But now, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how is it that ye turn back again to the weak and poor elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again anew?

⁷ Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth? ⁸ The persuasion is not from him who calls you.

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

¹⁴ that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, by cunning craftiness after the wily manner of error;

¹⁵ See to it then, how ye walk with exactness, not as unwise, but as wise,

⁸ in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁹ [him,] whose coming is after the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness for those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this cause God sends them a working of delusion, in order that they may believe the lie; ¹² that they may all be judged, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

⁴ he is puffed up with pride, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

⁹ and being perfected became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him;

⁸ By faith Abraham when called obeyed, to go forth into a place which he should afterward receive for an inheritance, and went forth, not knowing whither he went.

²² Having purified your souls in obeying the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one another from the heart fervently;

¹⁷ Because the time is come that judgment should begin from the house of God; but if it begin first from us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?

¹⁸ For, speaking swelling words of vanity, in lusts of the flesh they allure, by wanton ways, such as partly escape those who live in error;

²⁰ But I have against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and seduces my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols.

¹³ And he does great signs, so that also he causes fire to come down out of heaven on the earth, in the sight of men; ¹⁴ and he leads astray those who dwell on the earth, because of the signs which it was given him to do in the presence of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which has the wound of the sword, and lived.

³ Because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth became rich out of the abundance of her luxury.

³⁸ And Peter said to them: Repent, and be each of you immersed, upon the name of Jesus Christ, unto remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁵ who, having come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

⁴⁴ While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. ⁴⁵ And those of the circumcision who believed, as many as came with Peter, were astonished, that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit. ⁴⁶ For they heard them speaking with tongues, and magnifying God. Then answered Peter: ⁴⁷ Can any one forbid the water, that these should not be immersed, who received the Holy Spirit even as we also?

¹⁵ And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us at the beginning; ¹⁶ and I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said: John indeed immersed in water, but ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ If therefore God gave the like gift to them as to us, having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who then was I, that I could withstand God? ¹⁸ When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying: So then, to the Gentiles also God gave repentance unto life.

⁸ And God who knows the heart bore them witness, giving to them the Holy Spirit, as also to us;

² he said to them: Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said to him: Nay, we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit. ³ And he said to them: Unto what then were ye immersed? And they said: Unto John's immersion. ⁴ Then said Paul: John indeed immersed with the immersion of repentance; saying to the people, that they should believe on him who should come after him, that is, on Jesus. ⁵ And when they heard this, they were immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ And Paul having laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke with tongues, and prophesied.

¹⁷ For therein is revealed a righteousness of God, from faith to faith; as it is written: The just shall live by faith.

¹⁶ But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah says: Lord, who believed our report? ¹⁷ So then faith comes of hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

⁷ But to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit, for profiting. ⁸ For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; ⁹ to another faith, by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healings by the one Spirit; ¹⁰ to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another diversities of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But all these works the one and self-same Spirit, dividing to each one severally as he will. ¹² For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.

⁴ For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we preached not, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye received not, or a different gospel, which ye accepted not, ye might well bear with it.

⁵ Does he, therefore, who supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, do it from works of law, or from the hearing of faith?

¹⁴ that unto the Gentiles the blessing of Abraham might come in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

¹³ in whom ye also, after having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation, in whom [I say] having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise; ¹⁴ which is an earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.

⁴ God also bearing witness, with signs and wonders, and divers miracles, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

⁴ For it is impossible that they who have once been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

¹² to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they were ministering them, which now have been announced to you, through those who brought you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

⁷ So that thou art no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, also an heir through God. ⁸ But at that time indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which are not in their nature gods. ⁹ But now, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how is it that ye turn back again to the weak and poor elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again anew? ¹⁰ Do ye carefully observe days, and months, and seasons, and years?

⁴ Ye are separated from Christ, whoever of you are justified in the law; ye are fallen away from grace. ⁵ For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith working by love.

¹² As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised; only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. ¹³ For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but they desire that ye should be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. ¹⁴ But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁶ who has been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an indissoluble life. ¹⁷ For it is testified of him: Thou art a priest forever; After the order of Melchizedek. ¹⁸ For on the one hand, there is an annulling of the commandment that went before, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness,— ¹⁹ for the law perfected nothing,—and on the other the bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw near to God.

² For a tabernacle was prepared; the first, wherein is the lamp-stand, and the table, and the show-bread; which is called holy.

⁹ which is a figure for the time present, under which are offered both gifts and sacrifices, unable as to the conscience to perfect the worshiper; ¹⁰ only with meats and drinks, and divers immersions, ordinances of the flesh, imposed until the time of reformation.

² through which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word with which I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.

⁴ For it is impossible that they who have once been enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, ⁶ and have fallen away, should again be renewed to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame.

³² But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great contest of sufferings; ³³ partly, whilst ye were made a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became partakers with those who were so used. ³⁴ For ye sympathized with those in bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better and an enduring substance. ³⁵ Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. ³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise. ³⁷ For yet a little while, he that is to come will come, and will not delay. ³⁸ Now, the just shall live by faith; but if he draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him. ³⁹ But we are not of those who draw back unto perdition; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

²⁰ For if, having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christy but having again become entangled therein they are overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. ²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog, returned to his own vomit; and, A sow that was washed, to the wallowing in the mire.

⁸ Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we wrought, but receive a full reward.

³ They spent a long time, therefore, speaking boldly in the Lord, who gave testimony to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

⁹ This man was listening to Paul as he spoke; who, fixing his eyes on him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, ¹⁰ said with a loud voice: Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped up, and walked.

¹¹ And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul; ¹² so that also there were carried from his body to the sick, handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out from them.

¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the good news of Christ;

⁴ I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; ⁵ that in everything ye were made rich in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;

¹⁰ to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another diversities of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.

⁸ how shall not the ministration of the spirit be more glorious?

⁴ (for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty before God to the pulling down of strongholds)

¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs, and wonders, and miracles.

³ since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.

² This only I desire to learn from you: Was it from works of law that ye received the Spirit, or from the hearing of faith?

³ For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness. ⁴ Now to him that works, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as a debt. ⁵ But to him that works not, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness. ⁶ As also David speaks of the happiness of the man, to whom God reckons righteousness, apart from works:

⁹ Comes this happiness then on the circumcision, or also on he uncircumcision? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. ¹⁰ How then was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all that believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them also,

²¹ and being fully persuaded, that what he has promised he is able also to perform. ²² Wherefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

²⁴ but for ours also, to whom it shall be reckoned, if we believe on him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

³² Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as being by works of law. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling; ³³ as it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and he that believes on him shall not be put to shame.

¹⁹ as that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are then ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were beseeching by us; on behalf of Christ we pray: Be reconciled to God! ²¹ Him who knew not sin he made to be sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

⁹ So that they who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

²³ And the scripture was fulfilled which says: Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness; and he was called, Friend of God.

⁹ And Jesus said to him: This day is salvation come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.

³¹ So also ye, when ye see these things coming to pass, know that the kingdom of God is near.

³⁹ They answered and said to him: Our father is Abraham. Jesus says to them: If ye were children of Abraham, ye would do the works of Abraham.

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all that believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them also, ¹² and father of circumcision to those who are not only of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had while in uncircumcision. ¹³ For not through law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if they that are of law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. ¹⁵ For the law works wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there transgression. ¹⁶ For this cause it is of faith, that it may be by grace; in order that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

⁷ neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. ⁸ That is, not they who are the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

²⁶ For ye are all sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁷ For all ye who were immersed unto Christ, did put on Christ. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.

²³ Know that the brother, Timothy, has been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

³⁸ He that believes on me, as said the Scripture, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

⁴² Did not the Scripture say, that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

³⁷ And again another scripture says: They shall look on him whom they pierced.

²⁵ For David says concerning him: I saw the Lord always before me; Because he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. ²⁶ For this my heart rejoiced, and my tongue exulted; Moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope;

³⁵ Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

¹⁵ And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written: ¹⁶ After this I will return, And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; And I will rebuild the ruins thereof, and will set it up again; ¹⁷ that the rest of men may seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name has been called, Saith the Lord, who does these things. ¹⁸ Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

²⁸ Therefore we reckon that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law. Is he the God of Jews only? ²⁹ Is he not also of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also; ³⁰ seeing that God is one, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: Even for this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be declared in all the earth.

³⁰ What then shall we say? That Gentiles, who were not following after righteousness, obtained righteousness, the righteousness which is of faith;

¹⁶ Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He says not, and to seeds, as concerning many; but as concerning one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.

²² But the Scripture shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

³⁰ But what says the Scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman.

¹⁵ and that from a child thou didst know the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is inspired by God, and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

² For to us were the glad tidings preached, as also to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mingled with faith in those who heard.

¹⁵ And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed loud voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of the world is become our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he will reign forever and ever.

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all that believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them also,

¹⁶ For this cause it is of faith, that it may be by grace; in order that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

⁷ Know then that they who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham. ⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that God justifies the Gentiles by faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham, saying: In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

²⁹ And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.

²⁸ But ye, brethren, after the manner of Isaac, are children of promise.

⁴¹ Then will he say also to those on the left hand: Depart from me, accursed, into the everlasting fire; prepared for the Devil and his angels.

⁹ And he spoke this parable to some who trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others. ¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood, and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. ¹² I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess. ¹³ And the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God be merciful to me, the sinner.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. ²⁰ Because by works of law no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin.

¹⁵ For the law works wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁹ And I was alive without law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰ And the commandment, which was for life, that I found to be for death. ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. ¹² So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Has then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it does not submit itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it;

¹⁶ but knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we also believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of law; because by works of law no flesh shall be justified.

⁹ But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said: Do not commit adultery, said also: Do not kill. Now if thou commit not adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

³⁸ Now, the just shall live by faith; but if he draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him.

² For in many things we all offend. If any one offends not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body.

⁸ If we say that we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, that he may forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying: Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou wast slain, and didst redeem to God by thy blood out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;

¹⁴ And I said to him: Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who come out of the great affliction, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Therefore are they before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

¹⁷ And, he said to him: Why dost thou ask me concerning good? One is the Good. But if thou desirest to enter into life, keep the commandments.

²⁵ And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him, saying: Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? ²⁶ He said to him: What is written in the law? How readest thou? ²⁷ And he answering said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. ²⁸ And he said to him: Thou answeredst rightly. This do, and thou shalt live.

⁴ Now to him that works, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as a debt. ⁵ But to him that works not, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

¹⁴ For if they that are of law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

³⁰ What then shall we say? That Gentiles, who were not following after righteousness, obtained righteousness, the righteousness which is of faith; ³¹ but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, attained not to [such] a law. ³² Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as being by works of law. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling;

⁵ For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law: The man that has done them, shall live by them. ⁶ But the righteousness which is of faith says thus: Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down;)

⁶ And if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise, grace becomes no longer grace. Ancient copies omit the words in brackets. [But if of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise, work is no longer work.]

²⁸ For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many, for remission of sins.

⁵ And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went away and hanged himself.

³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.

²⁴ being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; ²⁵ whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith by his blood, for the exhibition of his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins before committed in the forbearance of God; ²⁶ for the exhibition of his righteousness in this present time, that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus.

²⁵ who was delivered up for our offenses, and was raised for our justification.

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; ⁴ that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

³ For I myself could wish to be accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;

²¹ Him who knew not sin he made to be sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

¹⁰ For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it is written: Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.

⁵ that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

² and walk in love, as also Christ loved us, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and cleanse for himself a people to be his own, zealous of good works.

²⁶ For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; ²⁷ who has not necessity daily, as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; for this he did once for all, in offering up himself.

¹² and not through the blood of goats and calves but through his own blood, entered once for all into the holy places, obtaining eternal redemption.

¹⁵ And for this cause he is mediator of a new covenant, in order that, death having taken place, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, they who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

²⁶ for then must he many times have suffered since the foundation of the world; but now once, in the end of the ages, he has been manifested for the putting away of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

²⁸ so also the Christ, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will to those who look for him appear a second time without sin, unto salvation.

⁴ For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. ⁵ Wherefore, when he comes into the world, he says: Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me; ⁶ In whole burnt-offerings, and sacrifices for sin, thou hadst no pleasure. ⁷ Then said I: Lo, I come, In the volume of the book it is written of me, To do thy will, O God. ⁸ Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, nor hadst pleasure therein, which are offered by the law, ⁹ then has he said: Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. ¹⁰ In which will we have been sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹⁸ knowing that not with perishable things, silver and gold, ye were redeemed from your vain course of life received by tradition from your fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot; ²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for you, ²¹ who through him believe on God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are on God.

²⁴ who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to our sins, should live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit;

¹ MY little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And if any one have sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. ² And he is a propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

⁸ And all who dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which is slain, from the foundation of the world.

¹⁰ And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people. ¹¹ For to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

¹³ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

⁴⁹ And, behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you. But do ye tarry in the city, until ye are endued with power from on high.

³⁹ And this he spoke concerning the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴ And, being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which ye heard from me; ⁵ for John indeed immersed in water; but ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit, not many days hence.

³³ Being therefore exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured forth this, which ye now see and hear.

³⁸ And Peter said to them: Repent, and be each of you immersed, upon the name of Jesus Christ, unto remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹ For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall have called.

²⁵ Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. ²⁶ Unto you first, God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

¹² And there is salvation in no other; for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, in which we must be saved.

³² And we are his witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit also, which God gave to those who obey him.

¹⁵ And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us at the beginning; ¹⁶ and I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said: John indeed immersed in water, but ye shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit.

³ For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness. ⁴ Now to him that works, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as a debt. ⁵ But to him that works not, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness. ⁶ As also David speaks of the happiness of the man, to whom God reckons righteousness, apart from works: ⁷ Happy they, whose iniquities were forgiven, And whose sins were covered; ⁸ Happy the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin! ⁹ Comes this happiness then on the circumcision, or also on he uncircumcision? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. ¹⁰ How then was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all that believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them also, ¹² and father of circumcision to those who are not only of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had while in uncircumcision. ¹³ For not through law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if they that are of law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. ¹⁵ For the law works wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there transgression. ¹⁶ For this cause it is of faith, that it may be by grace; in order that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, ¹⁷ (as it is written: A father of many nations have I made thee,) before God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things that are not as though they were;

⁹ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwells in you. ¹² So that, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die; but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. ¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. ¹⁵ For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage, again to fear; but ye received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;

²⁶ And in like manner does the Spirit also help our weakness; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered. ²⁷ And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

⁹ because, if thou shalt profess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth profession is made unto salvation. ¹¹ For the Scripture says: Whoever believes on him shall not be put to shame. ¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for the same is Lord of all, rich toward all that call upon him; ¹³ for every one who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ¹⁴ How then shall they call on him on whom they believed not? And how shall they believe on him of whom they heard not? And how shall they hear without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how shall they preach, unless they are sent forth? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!

¹³ For by one Spirit we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.

²² he who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

⁵ Does he, therefore, who supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, do it from works of law, or from the hearing of faith? ⁶ As Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness. ⁷ Know then that they who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham. ⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that God justifies the Gentiles by faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham, saying: In thee shall all the nations be blessed. ⁹ So that they who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

⁶ And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

¹⁸ Because through him we both have the access in one Spirit to the Father.

²² in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

¹⁶ that he would grant to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might through his Spirit as to the inner man,

³⁰ And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

⁴ who desires that all should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; ⁶ who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time;

¹⁹ These are they who separate; sensual, having not the Spirit. ²⁰ But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man.)

¹⁹ I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as ye yielded your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

³² If after the manner of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what is the profit to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink; For to-morrow we die.

¹⁷ For a testament is of force after men are dead; since it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.

⁵⁵ as he spoke to our fathers, for Abraham and for his seed forever.

²⁵ Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

¹³ For not through law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

⁵ so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

¹² For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members each one.

⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that God justifies the Gentiles by faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham, saying: In thee shall all the nations be blessed.

¹⁵ but holding the truth, may in love grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ; ¹⁶ from whom all the body, fitly framed together and compacted by means of every joint of the supply, according to the working in the measure of each single part, effects the increase of the body to the upbuilding of itself in love.

²⁹ For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, as also Christ the church; ³⁰ because we are members of his body, [being] of his flesh, and of his bones.

³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church.

¹⁹ and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, by means of the joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and being knit together, increases with the increase of God.

¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

⁶⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, that he visited and wrought redemption for his people; ⁶⁹ and raised up a horn of salvation for us, in the house of David his servant, ⁷⁰ (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets of old,) ⁷¹ salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; ⁷² to show mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; ⁷³ the oath which he swore to Abraham our father, ⁷⁴ to grant to us, that without fear, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, we should serve him, ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. ⁷⁶ And also thou, O child, shalt be called Prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare his ways, ⁷⁷ in order to give knowledge of salvation to his people in remission of their sins; ⁷⁸ through the tender mercies of our God, whereby the dayspring from on high visited us, ⁷⁹ to give light to those sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, in order to guide our feet into the way of peace.

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁵⁶ Abraham, your father, rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad. ⁵⁷ The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? ⁵⁸ Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.

⁶ And God spoke after this manner, that his seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they will bring them into bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.

³ For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make void the faithfulness of God?

²⁵ whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith by his blood, for the exhibition of his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins before committed in the forbearance of God;

¹³ For not through law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if they that are of law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

¹² And I mean this, that each of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

¹⁷ For Christ did not send me to immerse, but to preach the glad tidings; not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

²⁹ But this I say, brethren, the time that remains is short; that both they who have wives may be as though they had none;

¹⁹ What then do I say? That an idol is anything, or that what is offered to idols is anything?

²⁰ For however many are the promises of God, in him is the yea, and in him the Amen, to the glory of God through us.

⁶ But as to this, he that sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he that sows with blessings shall also reap with blessings;

¹⁵ Brethren, I speak after the manner of men. If a covenant has been confirmed, though it be a man's, no one sets it aside, or adds thereto.

²¹ Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be it! For if a law had been given which is able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been of law.

⁴ Ye are separated from Christ, whoever of you are justified in the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

¹⁶ But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the desire of the flesh.

¹⁷ This therefore I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

⁴ And this I say, that no one may beguile you with enticing words.

¹³ For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, ¹⁴ saying: Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. ¹⁵ And so, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶ For men indeed swear by the greater; and the oath is to them an end of all gainsaying, for a confirmation. ¹⁷ Wherein God, wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; ¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible that God should lie, we may have strong encouragement, who fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

¹⁸ For on the one hand, there is an annulling of the commandment that went before, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness,—

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and greeted them, and professed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when tried, has offered up Isaac; and he who had accepted the promises offered up his only begotten, ¹⁸ of whom it was said: In Isaac shall thy seed be called; ¹⁹ accounting that God is able even to raise from the dead; whence he also received him back in a figure.

³⁹ And all these, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise; ⁴⁰ God having provided something better concerning us, that they should not without us be made perfect.

¹¹ searching as to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them signified, when it testified beforehand the sufferings destined for Christ, and the glories that should follow; ¹² to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they were ministering them, which now have been announced to you, through those who brought you the good news by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for you,

⁵⁴ He helped Israel, his servant; to remember mercy, ⁵⁵ as he spoke to our fathers, for Abraham and for his seed forever.

⁷² to show mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; ⁷³ the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,

¹⁷ and if children, also heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

²¹ I do not set aside the grace of God; for if there be righteousness through law, then Christ died without cause.

¹² Now the law is not of faith; but, he that has done them shall live in them.

²⁶ For ye are all sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. ¹³ For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, ¹⁴ saying: Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. ¹⁵ And so, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

³¹ And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one should rise from the dead.

⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses in whom ye have placed your hope. ⁴⁶ For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. ⁴⁷ But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin.

³⁸ This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us;

⁵³ who received the law as the ordinances of angels, and kept it not.

¹³ (for not the hearers of law are just before God, but the doers of law shall be justified:

¹ WHAT then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? ² Much every way; first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

²⁰ Moreover the law came in also, that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound; ²¹ that as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁷ What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I had not known coveting, if the law had not said: Thou shalt not covet. ⁸ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For without law, sin is dead.

²¹ Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be it! For if a law had been given which is able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been of law. ²² But the Scripture shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. ²³ But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed. ²⁴ So that the law has become our schoolmaster, unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ But faith having come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

¹ NOW I say, as long as the heir is a child, he differs in nothing from a servant though he is lord of all; ² but is under guardians and stewards, until the time appointed by the father. ³ So also we, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world. ⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under law,

⁸ But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; ⁹ knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers; for man-slayers,

² For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

⁵ For not to the angels did he put in subjection the world to come, of which we are speaking.

²⁰ And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians. But they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by that of the king.

¹⁷ But this I say, that a covenant before confirmed by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, to make the promise of no effect.

⁵ For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

⁶ But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also mediator of a better covenant, which has been established upon better promises.

²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better than Abel.

¹⁷ Think not that I came to destroy the law, or the prophets; I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. ¹⁸ For verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall not pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. ¹⁹ Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I say to you, that except your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

⁴ Far be it! Yea, let God be true and every man a liar; as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words, And mayest overcome when thou art judged.

⁶ Far be it! For then how shall God judge the world?

²⁰ Because by works of law no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now, apart from law, a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²² a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all that believe; (for there is no difference;

³¹ Do we then make void law through the faith? Far be it! Yea, we establish law.

³¹ but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, attained not to [such] a law.

³ For not knowing the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, to every one that believes.

¹⁷ But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is then Christ a minister of sin? Far be it!

¹⁹ For I through law died to law, that I might live to God.

⁶ as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. ⁷ But what things were gain to me, these I have accounted loss for Christ. ⁸ Nay more, and I account all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and account them refuse, that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God, upon faith;

⁷ By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

¹⁶ He that believes and is immersed shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be condemned.

¹⁵ that every one who believes on him may have everlasting life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ¹⁸ He that believes on him is not judged; but he that believes not has already been judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

³⁶ He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

²⁴ Verily, verily, I say to you, he that hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has everlasting life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

²⁵ Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believes on me, though he be dead, yet shall he live; ²⁶ and whoever lives and believes on me, shall never die. Believest thou this?

⁴⁶ I have come a light into the world, that whoever believes on me may not abide in the darkness.

³¹ But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.

³¹ And they said: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

⁹ What then? Are we better? No, in no wise; for we before charged, that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin. ¹⁰ As it is written: There is none righteous, no, no one; ¹¹ there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God. ¹² They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one. ¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; ¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. ¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood. ¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways; ¹⁷ and the way of peace they have not known. ¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes.

²³ for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God;)

¹² Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all sinned;

⁹ because, if thou shalt profess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

³² For God included all in disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that God justifies the Gentiles by faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham, saying: In thee shall all the nations be blessed. ⁹ So that they who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. ¹⁰ For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it is written: Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.

²³ But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed.

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

¹³ For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, ¹⁴ saying: Surely, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. ¹⁵ And so, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶ For men indeed swear by the greater; and the oath is to them an end of all gainsaying, for a confirmation. ¹⁷ Wherein God, wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

⁴ through which he has given us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world through lust;

¹³ But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.

²⁵ And this is the promise which he himself promised to us, the life eternal.

²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and should love one another, as he gave us commandment. ²⁴ And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit which he gave us.

¹¹ And this is the witness, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of God has not the life. ¹³ These things I wrote to you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, who believe on the name of the Son of God.

²³ And turning to the disciples, he said privately: Happy are the eyes that behold what ye are beholding. ²⁴ For I say to you, that many prophets and kings desired to see what ye are beholding, and saw not, and to hear what ye are hearing, and heard not.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? Far be it!

²⁰ And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, that I might gain those under law; ²¹ to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ), that I might gain those without law.

¹⁹ What then is the law? It was added because of the transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made; having been ordained through angels, by the hand of a mediator.

¹ NOW I say, as long as the heir is a child, he differs in nothing from a servant though he is lord of all; ² but is under guardians and stewards, until the time appointed by the father. ³ So also we, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world. ⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under law, ⁵ that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

²¹ Tell me, ye who desire to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

¹⁸ But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.

² looking away to the author and finisher of the faith, Jesus; who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁷ Think not that I came to destroy the law, or the prophets; I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. ¹⁸ For verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall not pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

³⁸ Be it known to you therefore, men, brethren, that remission of sins through this man is announced to you; ³⁹ and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye were not able to be justified by the law of Moses.

⁷ What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I had not known coveting, if the law had not said: Thou shalt not covet. ⁸ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For without law, sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive without law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death? ²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, to every one that believes.

¹⁵ For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

²⁵ But faith having come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

² but is under guardians and stewards, until the time appointed by the father. ³ So also we, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world.

¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ.

⁸ the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the holy places has not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing; ⁹ which is a figure for the time present, under which are offered both gifts and sacrifices, unable as to the conscience to perfect the worshiper; ¹⁰ only with meats and drinks, and divers immersions, ordinances of the flesh, imposed until the time of reformation. ¹¹ But Christ, having come as a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands (that is, not of this creation), ¹² and not through the blood of goats and calves but through his own blood, entered once for all into the holy places, obtaining eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls, and ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctifies to the purity of the flesh; ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ¹⁵ And for this cause he is mediator of a new covenant, in order that, death having taken place, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, they who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. ¹⁶ For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be brought in the death of the testator.

¹ FOR the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices which they offer year by year continually, make those who come to them perfect. ² For then would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers would have had no more consciousness of sins, having once been cleansed? ³ But in them there is a remembrance of sins year by year. ⁴ For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. ⁵ Wherefore, when he comes into the world, he says: Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me; ⁶ In whole burnt-offerings, and sacrifices for sin, thou hadst no pleasure. ⁷ Then said I: Lo, I come, In the volume of the book it is written of me, To do thy will, O God. ⁸ Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, nor hadst pleasure therein, which are offered by the law, ⁹ then has he said: Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. ¹⁰ In which will we have been sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹ And every priest indeed stands daily ministering, and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; ¹² but he, having offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God; ¹³ from henceforth expecting until his enemies be made his footstool. ¹⁴ For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under law, but under grace.

⁴ Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that ye should be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

¹ NOW I say, as long as the heir is a child, he differs in nothing from a servant though he is lord of all; ² but is under guardians and stewards, until the time appointed by the father. ³ So also we, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world. ⁴ But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under law, ⁵ that he might redeem those under law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. ⁶ And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

¹¹ If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there that a different priest should arise, after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? ¹² For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there comes also a change of law. ¹³ For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to a different tribe, of which no one has given attendance at the altar. ¹⁴ For it is evident that our Lord has arisen out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. ¹⁵ And it is yet more abundantly manifest, if after the similitude of Melchizedek there arises a different priest,

³ For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; wherefore it is necessary, that this one have something which he may offer. ⁴ For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are those who offer gifts according to the law, ⁵ who minister after an outline and a shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was admonished by God, when he was about to make the tabernacle; for, See, says he, that thou make all things according to the pattern which was showed thee in the mount. ⁶ But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also mediator of a better covenant, which has been established upon better promises. ⁷ For if that first had been faultless, a place would not have been sought for the second. ⁸ For finding fault with them, he says: Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When I will make with the house of Israel, And with the house of Judah, a new covenant; ⁹ Not according to the covenant that I made for their fathers, In the day when I took hold of their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt; Because they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will establish for the house of Israel, After those days, saith the Lord, Putting my laws into their mind, And on their hearts I will write them; And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people; ¹¹ And they shall not teach, Each one his neighbor, and each one his brother, Saying: Know the Lord; Because all shall know me, from the least to the greatest; ¹² Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, And their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more. ¹³ In that he says, A new, he has made the first old. Now that which is grown old, and worn out with age, is ready to vanish away.

¹⁵ Moreover, the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us; for after he had said, ¹⁶ This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, putting my laws upon their hearts, and on their minds I will write them, [he further says,] ¹⁷ and their sins and iniquities I will remember no more. ¹⁸ But where there is remission of these, there is no longer offering for sin.

¹² But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe on his name; ¹³ who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁷ Jesus says to her: Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. ¹⁵ For ye did not receive the spirit of bondage, again to fear; but ye received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, also heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

¹⁸ and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

⁵ having predestined us unto the adoption of sons by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

¹ BECOME therefore followers of God, as beloved children

¹⁵ that ye may become blameless and simple, children of God, unreproachable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as do the heavenly lights in the world;

¹⁰ For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. ¹¹ For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, ¹² saying: I will declare thy name to my brethren; In the midst of the congregation I will sing praise to thee. ¹³ And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold, I and the children whom God gave me. ¹⁴ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner took part in the same; that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil; ¹⁵ and might deliver those who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

¹ BEHOLD what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. For this cause the world knows not us, because it knew not him. ² Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it was never yet manifested what we shall be. We know that if it shall be manifested, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

⁷ He that overcomes shall inherit these things; and I will be to him a God, and he shall be to me a son.

¹⁹ Go therefore, and disciple all the nations, immersing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you alway, unto the end of the world.

¹⁵ And he said to them: Go into all the world, and preach the good news to every creature. ¹⁶ He that believes and is immersed shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be condemned.

²² But the father said to his servants: Bring forth a robe, the best, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet;

¹⁶ for he had not yet fallen upon any of them; but they had only been immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus.

³⁶ And as they went along the way, they came to a certain water. And the eunuch said: See, here is water; what hinders that I should be immersed? ³⁷ And Philip said: If thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayest. And answering he said: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. ³⁸ And he commanded that the chariot should stop. And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he immersed him.

¹⁸ And immediately there fell off from his eyes as it were scales; and he received sight, and arose, and was immersed;

¹⁵ And when she was immersed and her household, she besought us, saying: If ye have judged me to be a believer in the Lord, come into my house, and abide. And she constrained us.

³¹ And they said: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. ³² And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. ³³ And taking them along, the same hour of the night, he washed their stripes; and was immersed, himself and all his, immediately.

²² a righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all that believe; (for there is no difference;

³ Know ye not, that all we who were immersed into Jesus Christ were immersed into his death? ⁴ We were buried therefore with him by the immersion into his death; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

¹⁴ but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

² and were all immersed unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

²⁴ and put on the new man, who was created after God in the righteousness and holiness of the truth.

¹⁰ And ye are made complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power; ¹¹ in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² being buried with him in the immersion, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

¹⁰ and have put on the new man, who is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him who created him;

²¹ which in an antitype, immersion, now saves us also (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the requirement of a good conscience toward God), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

¹⁶ And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.

⁵² and not for the nation only, but that also he should gather together into one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

¹¹ And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep those in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are,

²⁰ And I pray not for these only, but also for those who believe on me through their word; ²¹ that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

⁹ tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek; ¹⁰ but glory, and honor, and peace, to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all that believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them also, ¹² and father of circumcision to those who are not only of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had while in uncircumcision.

²⁴ whom he also called, even us, not from among the Jews only, but also from among the Gentiles?

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband; else your children are unclean; but now they are holy.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith working by love.

¹³ But now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who in time past were afar off, were made near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition; ¹⁵ having abolished in his flesh the enmity, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might make the two one new man in himself, making peace; ¹⁶ and might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. ¹⁷ And he came and brought the good news of peace to you who were afar off, and to those who were near. ¹⁸ Because through him we both have the access in one Spirit to the Father. ¹⁹ So then ye are no longer strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner-stone; ²¹ in whom all the building, fitly framed together, grows unto a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; ⁶ that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers with us of the promise, in Christ Jesus, through the gospel; ⁷ whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power. ⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; ⁹ and to make all see what is the dispensation of the mystery, which from ages has been hidden in God, who created all things; ¹⁰ that now, to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

⁴ There is one body, and one Spirit, as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

¹² and father of circumcision to those who are not only of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had while in uncircumcision.

¹⁶ For this cause it is of faith, that it may be by grace; in order that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, ¹⁷ (as it is written: A father of many nations have I made thee,) before God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things that are not as though they were; ¹⁸ who against hope believed in hope, that he should become father of many nations, according to that which was spoken: So shall thy seed be. ¹⁹ And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body already dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. ²⁰ And in respect to the promise of God he wavered not through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, ²¹ and being fully persuaded, that what he has promised he is able also to perform.

²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours; ²³ and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

²³ But each in his own order; Christ the first-fruits; afterward they who are Christ's at his coming.

⁷ Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trusts to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself consider this again, that, as he is Christ's, so also are we.

⁷ Know then that they who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

⁷ So that thou art no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, also an heir through God.

²² For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman, and one by the freewoman. ²³ But the one by the bondwoman was born after the flesh, and the one by the freewoman through the promise. ²⁴ Which things are an allegory. For these women are two covenants, one from mount Sinai, bearing children into bondage, ²⁵ which is Hagar (for the word Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia), and answers to the Jerusalem that now is, for she is in bondage with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem that 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; Because many are the children of the desolate, rather than of her who has the husband. ²⁸ But ye, brethren, after the manner of Isaac, are children of promise. ²⁹ But as then, the one born after the flesh persecuted the one born after the spirit, so also is it now. ³⁰ But what says the Scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman. ³¹ So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the freewoman.

²⁴ And they that are Christ's crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

⁶ that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers with us of the promise, in Christ Jesus, through the gospel; ⁷ that, having been justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for ministration, for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

¹⁷ Wherein God, wishing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

¹⁸ of whom it was said: In Isaac shall thy seed be called;

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren. Did not God choose the poor as to this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?