Galatians 2 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Then, fourteen years later, I went up to Jerusalem again, accompanied by Barnabas; I took Titus with me also. ² (It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound. ³ But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised. ⁴ There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again. ⁵ But we refused to yield for a single instant to their claims; we were determined that the truth of the gospel should hold good for you. ⁶ Besides, the so-called 'authorities' (it makes no difference to me what their status used to be — God pays no regard to the externals of men), these 'authorities' had no additions to make to my gospel. ⁷ On the contrary, when they saw I had been entrusted with the gospel for the benefit of the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been for the circumcised ⁸ (for He who equipped Peter to be an apostle of the circumcised equipped me as well for the uncircumcised), ⁹ and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised. ¹⁰ Only, we were to 'remember the poor.' I was quite eager to do that myself. ¹¹ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned. ¹² Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party. ¹³ The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play. ¹⁴ But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" — ¹⁵ We may be Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners,' ¹⁶ but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands — for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified. ¹⁷ If it is discovered that in our quest for justification in Christ we are 'sinners' as well as the Gentiles, does that make Christ an agent of sin? Never! ¹⁸ I really convict myself of transgression when I rebuild what I destroyed. ¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God; ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. ²¹ I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

²¹ She will bear a son, and you will call him 'Jesus,' for he will save his people from their sins."

⁷ But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath? ⁸ Now, produce fruit that answers to your repentance, ⁹ instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

³ So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves."

¹¹ So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"

¹⁶ I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves.

¹⁷ Jesus answered him, "You are a blessed man, Simon Bar-jona, for it was my Father in heaven, not flesh and blood, that revealed this to you. ¹⁸ Now I tell you, Peter is your name and on this rock I will build my church; the powers of Hades shall not succeed against it.

¹⁸ Now I tell you, Peter is your name and on this rock I will build my church; the powers of Hades shall not succeed against it.

²³ But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

²⁸ just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

¹⁶ They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour.

⁶⁹ Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A maidservant came up and said to him, "You were with Jesus the Galilean too." ⁷⁰ But he denied it before them all; "I do not know what you mean," he said. ⁷¹ When he went out to the gateway another maidservant noticed him and said to those who were there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene." ⁷² Again he denied it; he swore, "I do not know the man." ⁷³ After a little the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "To be sure, you are one of them too. Why, your accent betrays you!" ⁷⁴ At this he broke out cursing and swearing, "I do not know the man." At that moment a cock crowed. ⁷⁵ Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said, that 'before the cock crows you will disown me three times.' And he went outside and wept bitterly.

¹⁷ For this Herod had sent and arrested John and bound him in prison on account of his marriage to Herodias the wife of his brother Philip; ¹⁸ John had told Herod, "You have no right to your brother's wife." ¹⁹ Herodias had a grudge against him; she wanted him killed but she could not manage it, ²⁰ for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing he was a just and holy man; so he protected John — he was greatly exercised when he listened to him, still he was glad to listen to him.

⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition.

²⁶ (the woman was a pagan, of Syrophoenician birth) begging him to cast the daemon out of her daughter. ²⁷ He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first of all; it is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." ²⁸ She answered him, "No, sir, but under the table the dogs do pick up the children's crumbs."

¹⁴ They came up and said to him, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and fearless; you do not court human favour, you teach the Way of God honestly. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

²⁵ Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?" ²⁶ He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" ²⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself." ²⁸ "A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live." ²⁹ Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

² but the Pharisees and the scribes complained, "He welcomes sinners and eats along with them!"

²¹ They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly.

⁴⁹ "Rabbi," said Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!"

¹⁶ For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

³⁵ the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.

⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.

⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life, ⁶⁹ and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."

⁶⁹ and we believe, we are certain, that you are the holy One of God."

³¹ So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine: ³² you will understand the truth, and the truth will set you free." ³³ "We are Abraham's offspring," they retorted, "we have never been slaves to anybody. What do you mean by saying, 'You will be free'?" ³⁴ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave. ³⁵ Now the slave does not remain in the household for all time; the son of the house does. ³⁶ So, if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.

³⁹ They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did; ⁴⁰ but now you want to kill me — to kill a man who has told you the truth, the truth I have learned from God. Abraham did not do that. ⁴¹ You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and on meeting him he said, "You believe in the Son of man?" ³⁶ "Who is that, sir?" said the man, "tell me, that I may believe in him." ³⁷ "You have seen him," Jesus said, "he is talking to you." ³⁸ He said, "I do believe, Lord" — and he worshipped him.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep.

¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, because I am living and you will be living too. ²⁰ You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

¹³ To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

²¹ may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us — that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

³¹ but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

⁸ You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

²⁵ to fill the place in this apostolic ministry which Judas left in order to go to his own place."

¹⁴ But Peter stood up along with the eleven, and raising his voice he addressed them thus: "Men of Judaea and residents in Jerusalem, let everyone of you understand this — attend to what I say: ¹⁵ these men are not drunk, as you imagine. Why, it is only nine in the morning! ¹⁶ No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel — ¹⁷ In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams: ¹⁸ on my very slaves and slave-girls in those days will I pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. ¹⁹ And I will display wonders in heaven above and signs on earth below, blood and fire and vapour of smoke: ²⁰ the sun shall be changed into darkness and the moon into blood, ere the great, open Day of the Lord arrives. ²¹ And everyone who invokes the name of the Lord shall be saved. ²² Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know), ²³ this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder; ²⁴ but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him. ²⁵ For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand. ²⁶ My heart is glad, my tongue exults, my very flesh will rest in hope, ²⁷ because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay. ²⁸ Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, thou wilt fill me with delight in thy presence. ²⁹ Brothers, I can speak quite plainly to you about the patriarch David; he died and was buried and his tomb remains with us to this day. ³⁰ (He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne; ³¹ so he spoke with a prevision of the resurrection of the Christ, when he said that he was not forsaken in the grave nor did his flesh suffer decay. ³² This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness. ³³ Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.) ³⁴ For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'. ³⁶ So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified." ³⁷ When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?" ³⁸ "Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit. ³⁹ For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself." ⁴⁰ And with many another appeal he urged and entreated them. "Save yourselves," he cried, "from this crooked generation!" ⁴¹ So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.

¹² But when Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by any power or piety of ours? ¹³ The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him, ¹⁴ but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer, ¹⁵ and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness. ¹⁶ (He it is who has given strength to this man whom you see and know, by faith in His name; it is the faith He inspires which has made the man thus hale and whole before you all.) ¹⁷ Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers — ¹⁸ though this was how God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the lips of all the prophets, namely the sufferings of his Christ. ¹⁹ Repent then, and turn to have your sins blotted out, so that a breathing-space may be vouchsafed you, ²⁰ and that the Lord may send Jesus your long-decreed Christ, ²¹ who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great Restoration. Ages ago God spoke of this by the lips of his holy prophets; ²² for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you. ²³ Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People; ²⁴ and all the prophets who have spoken since Samuel and his successors have also announced these days. ²⁵ Now you are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers when he said to Abraham, all families on earth shall be blessed in your offspring. ²⁶ It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

⁴ (A number of those who heard them speak believed, bringing up their numbers to [about] five thousand.)

¹² There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."

³⁶ Thus Joseph, who was surnamed Barnabas or (as it may be translated) 'Son of Encouragement' by the apostles, a Levite of Cypriote birth,

³⁶ Thus Joseph, who was surnamed Barnabas or (as it may be translated) 'Son of Encouragement' by the apostles, a Levite of Cypriote birth, ³⁷ sold a farm belonging to him and brought the money, which he placed before the feet of the apostles.

¹² [Move first half of vs to start of vs 15] Many miracles and wonders were performed among the people by the apostles. Now they all without exception met in the portico of Solomon. ¹³ Though the people extolled them, not a soul from the outside dared to join them. ¹⁴ On the other hand, crowds of men and women who believed in the Lord were brought in. ¹⁵ In fact, invalids were actually carried into the streets and laid on beds and mattresses, so that, when Peter passed, his shadow at anyrate might fall on one or other of them. ¹⁶ Crowds gathered even from the towns round Jerusalem, bringing invalids and people troubled with unclean spirits, all of whom were healed.

³⁴ But a Pharisee in the Sanhedrin called Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law who was highly respected by all the people, got up and ordered the apostles to be removed for a few moments.

¹⁷ Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the holy Spirit.

³⁶ As they travelled on, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is water! What is to prevent me being baptized?"

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

²⁰ He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God —

²⁸ To them Peter said, "You know yourselves it is illegal for a Jew to join or accost anyone belonging to another nation; but God has shown me that I must not call any man common or unclean,

³⁴ Then Peter opened his lips and said, "I see quite plainly that God has no favourites,

² So when Peter came up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party fell foul of him. ³ "You went into the houses of the uncircumcised," they said, "and you ate with them!"

³ "You went into the houses of the uncircumcised," they said, "and you ate with them!" ⁴ Then Peter proceeded to put the facts before them. ⁵ "I was in the town of Joppa at prayer," he said, "and in a trance I saw a vision — a vessel coming down like a huge sheet lowered from heaven by the four corners. It came down to me, ⁶ and when I looked steadily at it, I noted the quadrupeds of the earth, the wild beasts, the creeping things and the wild birds. ⁷ Also I heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat.' ⁸ I said, 'No, no, my Lord; nothing common or unclean has ever passed my lips.' ⁹ But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.' ¹⁰ This happened three times, and then the whole thing was drawn back into heaven. ¹¹ At that very moment three men reached the house where I was living, sent to me from Caesarea. ¹² The Spirit told me to have no hesitation in accompanying them; these six brothers went with me as well, and we entered the man's house. ¹³ He related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa for Simon who is surnamed Peter; ¹⁴ he will tell you how you and all your household are to be saved.' ¹⁵ Now just as I began to speak, the holy Spirit fell upon them as upon us at the beginning; ¹⁶ and I remembered the saying of the Lord, that 'John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit.' ¹⁷ Well then, if God has given them exactly the same gift as he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I — how could I try to thwart God?" ¹⁸ On hearing this they desisted and glorified God, saying, "So God has actually allowed the Gentiles to repent and live!" ¹⁹ Now those who had been scattered by the trouble which arose over Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they preached the word to none except Jews.

²⁵ So Barnabas went off to Tarsus to look for Saul,

²⁹ So the disciples put aside money, as each of them was able to afford it, for a contribution to be sent to the brothers in Judaea. ³⁰ This they carried out, sending their contribution to the presbyters by Barnabas and Saul.

³⁰ This they carried out, sending their contribution to the presbyters by Barnabas and Saul.

²⁵ After fulfilling their commission, Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, bringing with them John who is surnamed Mark.

² As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

² As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." ³ Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and let them go. ⁴ Sent out thus by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus. ⁵ On reaching Salamis they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues, with John as their assistant. ⁶ They covered the whole island as far as Paphos, where they fell in with a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet called Bar-Jesus; ⁷ he belonged to the suite of the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man who called for Barnabas and Saul and demanded to hear the word of God. ⁸ But the sorcerer Elymas (for that is the translation of his name) tried to divert the proconsul from the faith. ⁹ So Saul (who is also called Paul), filled with the holy Spirit, looked steadily at him ¹⁰ and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord? ¹¹ See here, the Lord's hand will fall on you, and you will be blind, unable for a time to see the sun." In a moment a dark mist fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to take him by the hand.

³⁸ So you must understand, my brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through him, ³⁹ and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles! ⁴⁷ For these are the Lord's orders to us: I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the end of the earth." ⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life;

⁵⁰ But the Jews incited the devout women of high rank and the leading men in the town, who stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their territory.

³ Here they spent a considerable time, speaking fearlessly about the Lord, who attested the word of his grace by allowing signs and wonders to be performed by them. ⁴ The populace of the town was divided; some sided with the Jews, some with the apostles. ⁵ But, when the Gentiles and Jews along with their rulers made a hostile movement to insult and stone them, ⁶ the apostles grasped the situation and escaped to the Lycaonian towns of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country; ⁷ there they continued to preach the gospel. ⁸ At Lystra there was a man sitting, who was powerless in his feet, a lame man unable to walk ever since he was born. ⁹ He heard Paul speaking, and Paul, gazing steadily at him and noticing that he had faith enough to make him better, ¹⁰ said in a loud voice, "Stand erect on your feet." Up he jumped and began to walk. ¹¹ Now when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!" ¹² Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the chief spokesman.

¹ But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved." ² As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question.

² As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question. ³ The church sped them on their journey, and they passed through both Phoenicia and Syria informing the brothers, to the great joy of all, that the Gentiles were turning to God. ⁴ On arriving at Jerusalem they were received by the church, the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported how God had been with them and what he had done.

⁴ On arriving at Jerusalem they were received by the church, the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported how God had been with them and what he had done.

⁶ The apostles and the presbyters met to investigate this question, ⁷ and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

⁷ and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it. ⁸ The God who reads the hearts of all attested this by giving them the holy Spirit just as he gave it to us; ⁹ in cleansing their hearts by faith he made not the slightest distinction between us and them. ¹⁰ Well now, why are you trying to impose a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we ourselves could bear?

¹⁰ Well now, why are you trying to impose a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we ourselves could bear? ¹¹ No, it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we believe and are saved, in the same way as they are."

¹¹ No, it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we believe and are saved, in the same way as they are." ¹² So the whole meeting was quieted and listened to Barnabas and Paul recounting the signs and wonders God had performed by them among the Gentiles.

¹² So the whole meeting was quieted and listened to Barnabas and Paul recounting the signs and wonders God had performed by them among the Gentiles. ¹³ When they had finished speaking, James spoke. "Brothers," he said, "listen to me.

¹³ When they had finished speaking, James spoke. "Brothers," he said, "listen to me. ¹⁴ Symeon has explained how it was God's original concern to secure a People from among the Gentiles to bear his Name. ¹⁵ This agrees with the words of the prophets; as it is written, ¹⁶ After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent, its ruins I will rebuild and erect it anew, ¹⁷ that the rest of men may seek for the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, saith the Lord, ¹⁸ who makes this known from of old. ¹⁹ Hence, in my opinion, we ought not to put fresh difficulties in the way of those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

¹⁹ Hence, in my opinion, we ought not to put fresh difficulties in the way of those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, ²⁰ but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;

²⁰ but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood; ²¹ for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath."

²¹ for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath." ²² Then the apostles and the presbyters, together with the whole church, decided to select some of their number and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. The men selected were Judas (called Bar-Sabbas) and Silas, prominent members of the brotherhood.

²² Then the apostles and the presbyters, together with the whole church, decided to select some of their number and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. The men selected were Judas (called Bar-Sabbas) and Silas, prominent members of the brotherhood. ²³ They conveyed the following letter. "The apostles and the presbyters of the brotherhood to the brothers who belong to the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: greeting.

²³ They conveyed the following letter. "The apostles and the presbyters of the brotherhood to the brothers who belong to the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: greeting. ²⁴ Having learned that some of our number, quite unauthorized by us, have unsettled you with their teaching and upset your souls,

²⁴ Having learned that some of our number, quite unauthorized by us, have unsettled you with their teaching and upset your souls,

²⁴ Having learned that some of our number, quite unauthorized by us, have unsettled you with their teaching and upset your souls, ²⁵ we have decided unanimously to select some of our number and send them to you along with our beloved Paul and Barnabas

²⁵ we have decided unanimously to select some of our number and send them to you along with our beloved Paul and Barnabas

²⁵ we have decided unanimously to select some of our number and send them to you along with our beloved Paul and Barnabas

²⁵ we have decided unanimously to select some of our number and send them to you along with our beloved Paul and Barnabas ²⁶ who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁶ who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁶ who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁷ We therefore send Judas and Silas with the following message, which they will also give to you orally.

²⁷ We therefore send Judas and Silas with the following message, which they will also give to you orally. ²⁸ The holy Spirit and we have decided not to impose any extra burden on you, apart from these essential requirements:

²⁸ The holy Spirit and we have decided not to impose any extra burden on you, apart from these essential requirements: ²⁹ abstain from food that has been offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual vice. Keep clear of all this and you will prosper. Goodbye."

²⁹ abstain from food that has been offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual vice. Keep clear of all this and you will prosper. Goodbye." ³⁰ When the messengers were despatched, they went down to Antioch and after gathering the whole body they handed them the letter.

³⁰ When the messengers were despatched, they went down to Antioch and after gathering the whole body they handed them the letter. ³¹ On reading it the people rejoiced at the encouragement it brought; ³² and as Judas and Silas were themselves prophets, they encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many a counsel. ³³ Then after some time had passed the brothers let them go with a greeting of peace to those who had sent them. ³⁴ -- ³⁵ Paul and Barnabas, however, stayed on in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord along with a number of others. ³⁶ Some days later, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come and let us go back to visit the brothers in every town where we have proclaimed the word of the Lord. Let us see how they are doing." ³⁷ But while Barnabas wanted to take John (who was called Mark) along with them, ³⁸ Paul held they should not take a man with them who had deserted them in Pamphylia, instead of accompanying them on active service. ³⁹ So in irritation they parted company, Barnabas taking Mark with him and sailing for Cyprus,

³ so, as Paul wished him to go abroad with him, he took and circumcised him on account of the local Jews, all of whom knew his father had been a Greek.

⁹ A vision appeared to Paul by night, the vision of a Macedonian standing and appealing to him with the words, "Cross to Macedonia and help us." ¹⁰ As soon as he saw the vision, we made efforts to start for Macedonia, inferring that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

⁶ But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "Have no fear, speak on and never stop,

¹¹ God also worked no ordinary miracles by means of Paul; ¹² people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them.

²⁶ You also see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost all over Asia this fellow Paul has drawn off a considerable number of people by his persuasions. He declares that hand-made gods are not gods at all.

³⁰ and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.

¹⁸ Next day we accompanied Paul to James; all the presbyters were present, ¹⁹ and after saluting them Paul described in detail what God had done by means of his ministry among the Gentiles.

¹⁹ and after saluting them Paul described in detail what God had done by means of his ministry among the Gentiles. ²⁰ They glorified God when they heard it. Then they said to him, "Brother, you see how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, all of them ardent upholders of the Law. ²¹ Now, they have heard that you teach all Jews who live among Gentiles to break away from Moses and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs. ²² What is to be done? They will be sure to hear you have arrived. ²³ So do as we tell you. We have four men here under a vow; ²⁴ associate yourself with them, purify yourself with them, pay their expenses so that they may be free to have their heads shaved, and then everybody will understand there is nothing in these stories about you, but that, on the contrary, you are guided by obedience to the Law. ²⁵ As for Gentile believers, we have issued our decision that they must avoid food that has been offered to idols, the taste of blood, flesh of animals that have been strangled, and sexual vice."

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '"

¹ With a steady look at the Sanhedrin Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a perfectly good conscience before God down to the present day." ² Then the high priest Ananias ordered those who were standing next Paul to strike him on the mouth. ³ At this Paul said to him, "You whitewashed wall, God will strike you! You sit there to judge me by the Law, do you? And you break the Law by ordering me to be struck!" ⁴ The bystanders said, "What! would you rail at God's high priest?" ⁵ "Brothers," said Paul, "I did not know he was high priest" (for it is written, You must not speak evil of any ruler of your people).

¹¹ On the following night the Lord stood by Paul and said, "Courage! As you have testified to me at Jerusalem, so you must testify at Rome."

¹⁷ After a lapse of several years I came up with alms and offerings for my nation,

¹⁷ I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles — to whom I send you, ¹⁸ that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

²⁸ Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it."

⁵ through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

¹⁷ God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith — as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

¹¹ There is no partiality about God.

⁴ Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious — as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

⁶ Never! In that case, how could he judge the world?

⁹ Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin —

¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; ²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin. ²¹ But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets, ²² but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn. ²³ All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God, ²⁴ but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over; ²⁶ it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus. ²⁷ Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith. ²⁸ We hold a man is justified by faith apart from deeds of the Law altogether.

³⁰ Well then, there is one God, a God who will justify the circumcised as they believe and the uncircumcised on the score of faith.

² This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God.

⁵ but a man who instead of 'working' believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith counted as righteousness. ⁶ Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does —

¹³ The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if it is adherents of the Law who are heirs, then faith is empty of all meaning and the promise is void. ¹⁵ (What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

¹⁵ (What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.) ¹⁶ That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham — of Abraham who is the father of us all

²⁴ but for our sakes as well; faith will be counted to us as we believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

² Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory.

⁸ But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners. ⁹ Much more then, now that we are justified by his blood, shall we be saved by him from Wrath.

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

¹ Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'? ² Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

² Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

⁴ Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life. ⁵ For if we have grown into him by a death like his, we shall grow into him by a resurrection like his, ⁶ knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

⁸ We believe that as we have died with Christ we shall also live with him;

¹¹ So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹³ you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness. ¹⁴ Sin must have no hold over you, for you live under grace, not under law.

⁴ It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.

⁶ but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit. ⁷ What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet. ⁸ The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire — for sin, apart from law, is lifeless. ⁹ I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died; ¹⁰ the command that meant life proved death for me. ¹¹ The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me.

¹⁴ The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin.

²² I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned, ²³ but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

² the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

² the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death. ³ For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

³ For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ in order to secure the fulfilment of the Law's requirements in our lives, as we live and move not by the flesh but by the Spirit.

¹⁵ You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

³⁰ Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified. ³¹ Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

³¹ Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides! ³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits, ³⁴ who shall condemn? Will Christ? — the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us!

³⁷ No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

³⁰ What are we to conclude, then? That Gentiles who never aimed at righteousness have attained righteousness, that is, righteousness by faith;

³⁰ What are we to conclude, then? That Gentiles who never aimed at righteousness have attained righteousness, that is, righteousness by faith; ³¹ whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law. ³² And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble — ³³ as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

³ They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own. ⁴ Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness. ⁵ Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.

⁶ Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace. ⁷ Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it —

¹³ I tell you this, you Gentiles, that as an apostle to the Gentiles I lay great stress on my office,

³ In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

⁵ so too, for all our numbers, we form one Body in Christ and we are severally members one of another. ⁶ Our talents differ with the grace that is given us; if the talent is that of prophecy, let us employ it in proportion to our faith;

⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself; ⁸ if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die;

¹⁴ I know, I am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is in itself unclean; only, anything is unclean for a man who considers it unclean. ¹⁵ If your brother is being injured because you eat a certain food, then you are no longer living by the rule of love. Do not let that food of yours ruin the man for whom Christ died.

⁸ Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers,

¹⁵ Still, by way of refreshing your memory, I have written you with a certain freedom, in virtue of my divine commission

²⁵ At the moment I am off to Jerusalem on an errand to the saints. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia have decided to make a contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem. ²⁷ Such was their decision; and yet this is a debt they owe to these people, for if the Gentiles have shared their spiritual blessings, they owe them a debt of aid in material blessings.

⁵ in him you have received a wealth of all blessing, full power to speak of your faith and full insight into its meaning, ⁶ all of which verifies the testimony we bore to Christ when we were with you. ⁷ Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

²³ but our message is Christ the crucified — a stumbling-block to the Jews, 'sheer folly' to the Gentiles,

² I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

⁶ Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?

¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

⁹ But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

¹¹ He is ruined, this weak man, ruined by your 'enlightened mind,' this brother for whose sake Christ died! ¹² By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

² To other people I may be no apostle, but to you I am, for you are the seal set upon my apostleship in the Lord.

⁶ What! are we the only ones, myself and Barnabas, who are denied the right of abstaining from work for our living?

¹⁷ I get a reward if I do it of my own accord, whereas to do it otherwise is no more than for a steward to discharge his trust.

²⁰ To Jews I have become like a Jew, to win over Jews; to those under the Law I have become as one of themselves — though I am not under the Law myself — to win over those under the Law; ²¹ to those outside the Law I have become like one of themselves — though I am under Christ's law, not outside God's Law — to win over those outside the Law;

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.

²⁶ Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air —

³¹ So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.

² You know when you were pagans, how your impulses led you to dumb idols;

² the gospel by which you are saved — provided you adhere to my statement of it — unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

¹⁰ But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

¹⁴ and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.

¹⁷ and if Christ did not rise, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins.

³³ Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'

¹ With regard to the collection for the saints, you must carry out the same arrangements as I made for the churches of Galatia. ² On the first day of the week let each of you put aside a sum from his weekly gains, so that the money may not have to be collected when I come.

²⁴ (Not that we lord it over your faith — no, we co-operate for your joy: you have a standing of your own in the faith.)

¹³ my spirit could not rest, because I did not find Titus my brother there; so I said goodbye and went off to Macedonia.

⁷ Now if the administration of death which was engraved in letters of stone, was invested with glory — so much so, that the children of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses on account of the dazzling glory that was fading from his face; ⁸ surely the administration of the Spirit must be invested with still greater glory. ⁹ If there was glory in the administration that condemned, then the administration that acquits abounds far more in glory

¹⁷ (The Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is open freedom.)

¹⁰ wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body: ¹¹ every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.

⁷ (for I have to lead my life in faith, without seeing him):

¹⁵ and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them. ¹⁶ Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.

¹⁹ For in Christ God reconciled the world to himself instead of counting men's trespasses against them; and he entrusted me with the message of his reconciliation. ²⁰ So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were — be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ. ²¹ For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

¹ Now, brothers, I have to tell you about the grace God has given to the churches of Macedonia. ² Amid a severe ordeal of trouble, their overflowing joy and their deep poverty together have poured out a flood of rich generosity; ³ I can testify that up to their means, aye and beyond their means, they have given — ⁴ begging me of their own accord, most urgently, for the favour of contributing to the support of the saints.

⁴ begging me of their own accord, most urgently, for the favour of contributing to the support of the saints. ⁵ They have done more than I expected; they gave themselves to the Lord, to begin with, and then (for so God willed it) they put themselves at my disposal. ⁶ This has led me to ask Titus to complete the arrangements for the same gracious contribution among yourselves, as it was he who started it. ⁷ Now then, you are to the front in everything, in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all zeal, and in love for us — do come to the front in this gracious enterprise as well. ⁸ I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is. ⁹ (You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)

¹⁶ Thanks be to God who has inspired Titus with an interest in you equal to my own;

²³ Titus is my colleague, he shares my work for you, and these brothers of mine are apostles of the church, a credit to Christ.

³ I do live in the flesh, but I do not make war as the flesh does;

⁴ You put up with it all right, when some interloper preaches a second Jesus (not the Jesus I preached), or when you are treated to a Spirit different from the Spirit you once received, and to a different gospel from what I gave you! Why not put up with me? ⁵ I hold I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles'!

⁵ I hold I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles'!

¹³ 'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen — they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'

¹⁷ (What I am now going to say is not inspired by the Lord: I am in the role of a 'fool,' now, on this business of boasting.

²⁰ You put up with a man who assumes control of your souls, with a man who spends your money, with a man who dupes you, with a man who gives himself airs, with a man who flies in your face. ²¹ I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!).

²¹ I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!). ²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Israelites? so am I. Descended from Abraham? so am I.

²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Israelites? so am I. Descended from Abraham? so am I. ²³ Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

²³ Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death; ²⁴ five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews, ²⁵ three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once pelted with stones, three times shipwrecked, adrift at sea for a whole night and day; ²⁶ I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers —

²⁶ I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers — ²⁷ through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it. ²⁸ And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches.

¹¹ Now this is playing the fool! But you forced me to it, instead of coming forward yourselves and vouching for me. That was what I deserved; for, 'nobody' as I am, I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles.'

³ That will prove to you that I am indeed a spokesman of Christ. It is no weak Christ you have to do with, but a Christ of power.

⁵ Put yourselves to the proof, not me; test yourselves, to see if you are in the faith. Do you not understand that Christ Jesus is within you? Otherwise you must be failures.

⁴ who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world — by the will of our God and Father,

¹⁶ and when he chose to reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him to the Gentiles, instead of consulting with any human being,

¹⁸ Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Cephas. I stayed a fortnight with him.

¹ Then, fourteen years later, I went up to Jerusalem again, accompanied by Barnabas; I took Titus with me also. ² (It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound. ³ But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised. ⁴ There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again. ⁵ But we refused to yield for a single instant to their claims; we were determined that the truth of the gospel should hold good for you.

⁵ But we refused to yield for a single instant to their claims; we were determined that the truth of the gospel should hold good for you. ⁶ Besides, the so-called 'authorities' (it makes no difference to me what their status used to be — God pays no regard to the externals of men), these 'authorities' had no additions to make to my gospel.

⁶ Besides, the so-called 'authorities' (it makes no difference to me what their status used to be — God pays no regard to the externals of men), these 'authorities' had no additions to make to my gospel. ⁷ On the contrary, when they saw I had been entrusted with the gospel for the benefit of the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been for the circumcised

⁷ On the contrary, when they saw I had been entrusted with the gospel for the benefit of the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been for the circumcised

⁹ and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

⁹ and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised. ¹⁰ Only, we were to 'remember the poor.' I was quite eager to do that myself. ¹¹ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned.

¹¹ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned.

¹¹ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned. ¹² Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

¹² Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

¹² Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party. ¹³ The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.

¹³ The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.

¹³ The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.

¹³ The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play. ¹⁴ But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" —

¹⁴ But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" —

¹⁴ But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" — ¹⁵ We may be Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners,'

¹⁵ We may be Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners,' ¹⁶ but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands — for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

¹⁶ but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands — for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

¹⁸ I really convict myself of transgression when I rebuild what I destroyed. ¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God; ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. ²¹ I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

¹ O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you — you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes? ² I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message?

⁵ When He supplies you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, is it because you do what the Law commands or because you believe the gospel message?

¹⁰ Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

¹⁰ Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it. ¹¹ And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, —

¹¹ And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, — ¹² and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them), ¹³ Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet), ¹⁴ that the blessing of Abraham might reach the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

²¹ Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law, ²² but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith. ²³ Before this faith came, we were confined by the Law and kept in custody, with the prospect of the faith that was to be revealed;

²³ Before this faith came, we were confined by the Law and kept in custody, with the prospect of the faith that was to be revealed; ²⁴ the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

²⁴ the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

²⁴ the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ But faith has come, and we are wards no longer; ²⁶ you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

³ So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;

⁵ to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship.

⁹ but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

⁹ but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them? ¹⁰ You observe days and months and festal seasons and years!

¹⁰ You observe days and months and festal seasons and years! ¹¹ Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing! ¹² Do take my line, brothers, I beg of you — just as I once took yours. I have no complaint against you;

¹⁶ Am I your enemy to-day, because I have been honest with you?

²⁵ for mount Sinai is away in Arabia. She corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for the latter is in servitude with her children.

¹ with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude. ² Here, listen to Paul! I tell you, if you get circumcised, Christ will be no use to you.

² Here, listen to Paul! I tell you, if you get circumcised, Christ will be no use to you. ³ I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law.

³ I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law. ⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace, ⁵ for it is by faith that 'we' wait in the Spirit for the righteousness we hope for; ⁶ in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

¹⁰ I feel persuaded in the Lord that you will not go wrong. But he who unsettles you will have to meet his doom, no matter who he is. ¹¹ I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth! ¹² O that those who are upsetting you would get themselves castrated! ¹³ Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

²⁴ Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

³ If anyone imagines he is somebody, he is deceiving himself, for he is nobody;

¹² These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh — it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

¹⁴ But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

¹³ You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit

³ among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men. ⁴ But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us ⁵ he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

¹¹ Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh — ¹² remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

¹⁵ in his own flesh he put an end to the feud of the Law with its code of commands, so as to make peace by the creation of a new Man in himself out of both parties,

¹⁹ Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household, ²⁰ you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone;

²⁰ you are a building that rests on the apostles and prophets as its foundation, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone; ²¹ in him the whole structure is welded together and rises into a sacred temple in the Lord, ²² and in him you are yourselves built into this to form a habitation for God in the Spirit.

⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

¹⁷ May Christ dwell in your hearts as you have faith!

¹⁴ instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;

² and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

¹⁶ hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

²⁹ Give him a welcome in the Lord, then, with your hearts full of joy. Value men like that,

⁴ Though I could rely on outward privilege, if I chose. Whoever thinks he can rely on that, I can outdo him.

⁹ and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.

¹³ In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

⁵ due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

²⁷ It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

²⁹ I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

⁴ I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody; ⁵ for although I am absent in body I am with you in spirit, and it is a joy to note your steadiness and the solid front of your faith in Christ. ⁶ Since you have had the messiah, even Jesus the Lord, brought to you, lead your life in him, ⁷ fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God. ⁸ Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

¹¹ in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision, ¹² when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead. ¹³ For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses, ¹⁴ He cancelled the regulations that stood against us — all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,

²⁰ As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like

³ for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

³ for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory.

¹⁰ Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner salutes you; so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, about whom you have got instructions (if he comes to you, give him a welcome);

¹⁰ and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven — the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

⁴ no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

¹³ We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

⁵ Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.

¹⁰ who died for us that waking in life or sleeping in death we should live together with him.

²² and abstaining from whatever kind is evil.

¹¹ as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

⁷ and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

¹⁵ in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

³ men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving. ⁴ Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed — provided it is eaten with thanksgiving, ⁵ for then it is consecrated by the prayer said over it.

²⁰ Those who are guilty of sin you must expose in public, to overawe the others.

¹¹ Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

⁶ Some of them worm their way into families and get hold of the women-folk who feel crushed by the burden of their sins — wayward creatures of impulse,

⁴ to Titus my lawful son in a faith we hold in common; grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

³ For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

¹¹ Further, if the Levitical priesthood had been the means of reaching perfection (for it was on the basis of that priesthood that the Law was enacted for the People), why was it still necessary for another sort of priest to emerge with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of simply with the rank of Aaron

¹⁸ A previous command is set aside on account of its weakness and uselessness ¹⁹ (for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.

²⁴ he holds his priesthood without any successor, since he continues for ever. ²⁵ Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf. ²⁶ Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful, ²⁷ one who has no need, like yonder high priests, day by day to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for those of the People — he did that once for all in offering up himself. ²⁸ For the Law appoints human beings in their weakness to the priesthood; but the word of the Oath appoints a Son who is made perfect for ever.

² and who officiates in the sanctuary or true tabernacle set up by the Lord and not by man.

¹⁰ since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions — outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

¹³ And make straight paths for your feet to walk in. You must not let the lame get dislocated, but rather make them whole.

⁷ Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith.

⁹ Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

¹⁶ Do not forget beneficence and charity, either; these are the kind of sacrifices that are acceptable to God. ¹⁷ Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief — which would be a loss to yourselves.

¹⁵ Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food; ¹⁶ if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?

² We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue.

² whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you.

⁸ You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy

⁸ You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy ⁹ to obtain the outcome of your faith in the salvation of your souls.

¹⁷ And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below; ¹⁸ you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past, ¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained. ²⁰ He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake; ²¹ it is by him that you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; and thus your faith means hope in God.

¹⁶ Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God.

²⁴ he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

¹⁸ Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

¹ Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin, ² nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

⁶ (for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).

¹⁰ You must serve one another, each with the talent he has received, as efficient stewards of God's varied grace. ¹¹ If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

¹ Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

¹ Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves, ² and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);

¹⁹ promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

¹⁵ And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord means salvation; as indeed our beloved brother Paul has written to you out of the wisdom vouchsafed to him,

³ it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin. ⁸ If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us; ⁹ if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity; ¹⁰ if we say, "We have not sinned," we make him a liar and his word is not within us.

¹ My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just; ² he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.

⁵ and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin;

⁸ he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.) ⁹ Anyone who is born of God does not commit sin, for the offspring of God remain in Him, and they cannot sin, because they are born of God. ¹⁰ Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

¹⁷ But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?

¹ Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see if they come from God; for many false prophets have emerged in the world.

⁹ This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live. ¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

¹⁴ and we have seen, we can testify, that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.

¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son. ¹¹ And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life. ¹³ I have written in this way to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may be sure you have life eternal.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

³ Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you on the subject of our common salvation, but I am forced to write you an appeal to defend the faith which has once for all been committed to the saints; ⁴ for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ. ⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

¹² 'As for the conqueror, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God (nevermore shall he leave it), and I will inscribe on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God), and my own new name.'

²⁰ Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.

⁹ After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands;

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹⁴ And the wall of the City has twelve foundation-stones, bearing the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ He who talked to me had a golden wand by way of a measuring-rod, to measure the City and its gates and wall; ¹⁶ the City lies foursquare, the length the same as the breadth, and he measured fifteen hundred miles with his rod for the City, for its breadth and length and height alike; ¹⁷ he made the measure of the wall seventy-two yards, by human, that is, by angelic reckoning. ¹⁸ The material of the wall is jasper, but the City is made of pure gold, transparent like glass. ¹⁹ The foundation-stones of the city-wall are adorned with all sorts of precious stones, the first foundation-stone being of jasper, the second of sapphire, the third of agate, the fourth of emerald, ²⁰ the fifth of onyx, the sixth of sardius, the seventh of chrysolite, the eighth of beryl, the ninth of topaz, the tenth of chrysoprase, the eleventh of jacinth, the twelfth of amethyst.