above what he sees me to be, or hears of me.

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lest I should be lifted up above measure by the excess of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan that he might buffet me, lest I should be lifted up above measure. In respect to him I besought the 8 Lord thrice, that he might depart from me. And he said 9 unto me, My grace is enough for thee: for power is perfected in infirmity. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may tabernacle over me. Wherefore I take pleasure in infir- 10 mities, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, and straits for Christ's sake; for when I am infirm, then am I powerful.

I am become foolish; ye compelled me. For I ought to 11 have been commended by you: for in nothing was I behind the overmuch apostles, though I am nothing. Truly 12 the signs of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, both in signs, and wonders, and mighty works. For what is there wherein ye were deficient more than 13 the other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this unrighteousness. Behold, 14 this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to treasure up for the parents, but the parents for the children. And I will most gladly spend 15 and be spent out for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, should I be less loved?

But be it so, I was not a charge to you: nevertheless 16 being crafty I caught you with guile. Did I take advan- 17 tage of you by any of them whom I have sent unto you? I exhorted Titus, and with him I sent the brother; did 18 Titus take advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? in the same steps?

Ye have been long supposing that we are defending 19 ourselves unto you. Before God in Christ we are speaking; but all, dearly beloved, is for your edification. For 20 I fear, lest, when I come, I may not find you such as I would, and that I may be found by you such as ye would

not; lest there be contention, envying, passions, party 21 spirit, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: lest when I come again my God will humble me among you, and I shall bewail many of those who have sinned before, . and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they did.

CH. XIII.

THIS third time I am coming to you; In the mouth of two witnesses and of three shall every word be established. 2 I have before said, and say beforehand, as if I were present the second time though now absent, to them who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I 3 come again I will not forbear. Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is 4 powerful in you. For he was crucified because of weakness, but lives because of God's power: for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him because of God's power 5 toward you. Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith, prove your own selves; know ye not fully your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you? except ye are reprobate. 6 But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate. 7 Yet we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is 8 honourable, though we be as reprobate. For we can do 9 nothing against the truth, but for the truth. For we

rejoice when we are weak, and ye are powerful: we also 10 pray for this, your perfect union. For this cause I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

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Finally, brethren, rejoice, be perfectly united, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace; and the God of 12 love and peace will be with you. Salute one another with 13 an holy kiss. All the saints salute you.

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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

TO THE GALATIANS.

PAUL, an apostle, not from men neither through man, CH. I. but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father who raised him from the dead; and all the brethren with me, unto 2 the churches of Galatia. Grace to you and peace from 3 God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave 4 himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. 5

I marvel that ye are so soon removing from him 6 that called you in the grace of Christ, unto a different gospel, which is not another, only there are some that 7 trouble you, and desire to pervert the gospel of Christ. But s though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so say I now 9 again, If any one preach any other gospel than that ye received, let him be accursed. For am I now making a 10 friend of men or God? or am I seeking to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not have been Christ's

servant.

And I make known unto you, brethren, that the gos- 11 pel which was preached by me is not after man. For 12 neither did I receive it from man nor was taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ. For ye heard of 13 my conduct formerly in Judaism, that I was exceedingly persecuting the church of God and destroying it and was advancing in Judaism beyond many companions of 14 my own age in my race, being more abundantly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when he was pleased 15 who separated me from my mother's womb and called me

16 by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I communicated not 17 with flesh and blood; neither went I up to Jerusalem to them who were apostles before me, but I went away into 18 Arabia, and returned again into Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Kephas, and 19 abode with him fifteen days; but none other of the apostles did I see, save James the brother of the Lord. 20 Now the things which I am writing unto you, behold, before 21 God, I lie not. Then I came into the regions of Syria and 22 Cilicia. But I was unknown by face unto the churches of 23 Judaea which were in Christ. And they were only hearing, that he who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the 24 faith which he was once destroying; and they glorified God in me.

CH. II.

THEN after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem 2 with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. But I went up according to a revelation, and communicated unto them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them of repute, lest by any means I might 3 be running or did run in vain. But not even Titus who was with me, though a Greek, was constrained to be cir4 cumcised; and that because of the false brethren secretly brought in, who crept in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into 5 bondage to whom not even for an hour did we yield by the required subjection, that the truth of the gospel might 6 abide with you. But from them reputed to be something -whatsoever they were it makes no matter to me: God accepts not man's person-to me they of repute com7 municated nothing additional, but on the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter was with that of the circum8 cision; (for he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship

of the circumcision, wrought also for me unto the Gentiles :) 9 and when they knew the grace that was given unto me, James and Kephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of

fellowship; that we should be apostles unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision: only that we should 10 remember the poor, which very thing I was also anxious to do.

But when Kephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to 11 the face, because he was condemned. For before that certain 12 came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he kept back and separated himself, fearing them of the circumcision. And the other Jews also joined 13 in his hypocrisy, insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. But when I saw that 14 they walk not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Kephas before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles and not after that of Jews, how constrainest thou the Gentiles to Judaise ? We, 15 Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing 16 that a man is not justified by works of law, but only through faith in Christ Jesus, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of law; for by works of law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, 17 we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the very 18 things which I destroyed, I make myself out a transgressor. For I through law died to law, that I might live to God. 19 I am crucified with Christ; and I live no longer, but 20 Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself up for me. I do not reject the grace of 21 God; for if there be righteousness through law, then Christ died without cause.

CH.

O SENSELESS Galatians, who bewitched you, before whose III. eyes Jesus Christ was evidently set forth, crucified? This only would I learn from you, Was it from works 2 of law that ye received the Spirit, or from hearing of faith? Are ye so senseless? having begun in spirit, are 3 ye now finishing in flesh? Did ye suffer so many 4 things in vain ? if indeed it be in vain. He then that 5