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{\MTB Paul’s Letter to the
\par }{\MT Galatians

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\SH Introduction
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}To
the churches
in Galatia,
from
Paul,
an apostle
whose
commission
is
not
from
any
human
authority
and
is
given,
not
by
human
beings,
but
by
Jesus
Christ
and
God
the
Father
who
raised
him
from
the
dead;
\VS{2}and
from
all
the
followers
of
the
Lord
here.
\VS{3}May
God,
our
Father,
and
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
bless
you
and
give
you
peace.
For
Christ,
to
rescue
us
from
this
present
wicked
age,
\VS{4}gave
himself
for
our
sins,
in
accordance
with
the
will
of
our
God
and
Father,
\VS{5}to
whom
be
ascribed
all
glory
for
ever
and
ever.
Amen.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{6}I
am
astonished
at
your
so
soon
deserting
him,
who
called
you
through
the
love
of
Christ,
for
a
different “good
news,”
\VS{7}which
is
really
no
good
news
at
all.
But
then,
I
know
that
there
are
people
who
are harassing
you,
and
who
want
to
pervert
the
good
news
of
the
Christ.
\VS{8}Yet
even
if
we –
or
if
an
angel
from
heaven
were
to
tell
you
any
other “good
news”
than
that
which
we
told
you,
may
he
be
accursed!
\VS{9}We
have
said
it
before,
and
I
repeat
it
now –
If
anyone
tells
you
a “good
news”
other
than
that
which
you
received,
may
he
be
accursed!
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{10}Is
this,
I
ask,
trying
to conciliate
people,
or
God?
Am
I
seeking
to
please
people?
If
I
were
still
trying
to
please
people,
I
should
not
be
a
servant
of
Christ.
\par }{\SH The Independence
of
the Apostle’s Gospel
\par }{\PP \VS{11}I
remind
you,
friends,
that
the
good
news
which
I
told
is
no
mere
human invention.
\VS{12}I,
at
least,
did
not
receive
it
from
any
human
being,
nor
was
I
taught
it,
but
it
came
to
me
through
a
revelation
made
by
Jesus
Christ.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}You
heard,
no
doubt,
of
my
conduct
when
I
was
devoted
to
Judaism –
how
I
persecuted
the
church
of
God
to
an
extent
beyond
belief,
and
tried
to
destroy
it,
\VS{14}and
how,
in
my
devotion
to
Judaism,
I
surpassed
many
of
my
contemporaries
among
my
own
people
in
my
intense earnestness
in upholding
the
traditions
of
my
ancestors.
\VS{15}But
when
God,
who
had
set
me
apart
even
before
my
birth,
and
who
called
me
by
his
love,
\VS{16}saw
fit
to
reveal
his
Son
in
me,
so
that
I
might
tell
the
good
news
of
him
among
the
Gentiles,
then
at
once,
instead
of
consulting
any
human
being,
\VS{17}or
even
going
up
to
Jerusalem
to
see
those
who
were apostles
before
me,
I
went
to
Arabia,
and
came
back
again
to
Damascus.
\VS{18}Three
years
afterwards
I
went
up
to
Jerusalem
to
make
the
acquaintance
of
Peter,
and
I
stayed
a fortnight
with
him.
\VS{19}I
did
not,
however,
see
any
other apostle,
except
James,
the
Master’s
brother.
\VS{20}(As
to
what
I
am
now
writing
to
you,
I
call
God
to
witness
that
I
am
speaking
the
truth).
\VS{21}Afterwards
I
went
to
the
districts
of
Syria
and
Cilicia.
\VS{22}But
I
was
still
unknown
even
by
sight
to
the Christian
churches
in
Judea;
\VS{23}all
that
they
had
heard
was – “The
man
who
once
persecuted
us
is
now
telling
the
good
news
of
the
faith
of
which
he
once
tried
to
destroy.”
\VS{24}And
they
praised
God
for
my
sake.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Fourteen
years
afterwards
I
went
up
to
Jerusalem
again
with Barnabas,
and
I
took
Titus
also
with
me.
\VS{2}It
was
in
obedience
to
a
revelation
that
I
went;
and
I
laid
before
the apostles
the
good
news
that
I
am
proclaiming
among
the
Gentiles.
I
did
this
privately
before
those
who
are
thought
highly
of
because
I
was
afraid
that
I
might
possibly
be
taking,
or
might
have
already
taken,
a
course
which
would
prove
useless.
\VS{3}Yet
even
my
companion,
Titus,
though
a
Greek,
was
not
compelled
to
be
circumcised.
\VS{4}But,
because
of
those
who
pretended
to
be
followers
who
had
stolen
in,
the intruders
who
had crept
in
to
spy
on
the
liberty
which
we
have
through
union
with
Christ
Jesus,
in
order
to
bring
us
back
to
slavery –
\VS{5}Why,
we
did
not
for
a
moment
yield
submission
to
them,
so
that
the
truth
of
the
good
news
might
be
yours
always!
\VS{6}Of
those
who
are
thought
somewhat
highly
of –
what
they
once
were
makes
no
difference
to
me;
God
does
not recognise
human distinctions –
those,
I
say,
who
are
thought
highly
of
added
nothing
to
my
message.
\VS{7}On
the
contrary,
they
saw
that
I
had
been
entrusted
with
the
good
news
for
the
Gentiles,
just
as
Peter
had
been
for
the
Jews.
\VS{8}For
he
who
gave
Peter
power
for
his
mission
to
the
Jews
gave
me,
also,
power
to
go
to
the
Gentiles.
\VS{9}Recognising
the
charge
entrusted
to
me,
James,
Peter,
and
John,
who
were
regarded
as
pillars
of
the church,
openly
acknowledged Barnabas
and
me
as
fellow
workers,
agreeing
that
we
should
go
to
the
Gentiles,
and
they
to
the
Jews.
\VS{10}Only
we
were
to
remember
the
poor –
the
thing
I
was
myself
anxious
to
do.
\VS{11}But,
when Peter
came
to Antioch,
I
opposed
him
to
his
face;
for
he
stood self-condemned.
\VS{12}Before
certain
persons
came
from
James,
he
had
been
in
the
habit
of
eating
with
the
Gentile
converts;
but,
when
they
came,
he
began
to
withdraw
and
hold
aloof,
because
he
was
afraid
of offending
those
who
still
held
to
circumcision.
\VS{13}The
rest
of
the
Jewish
converts
were
guilty
of
the
same
hypocrisy,
so
that
even Barnabas
was
led
away
by
it.
\VS{14}But,
when
I
saw
that
they
were
not dealing straightforwardly
with
the
truth
of
the
good
news,
I
said
to
Peter,
before
them
all, ‘If
you,
who
were
born
a
Jew, adopt
Gentile
customs,
instead
of
Jewish,
why
are
you
trying
to
compel
the
Gentile
converts
to adopt
Jewish
customs?’
\par }{\SH The
Law
and
the
Gospel
\par }{\PP \VS{15}We,
though
we
are
Jews
by
birth
and
not
sinners
of
Gentile
origin,
know
that
no
one
is
pronounced
righteous
as
the
result
of
obedience
to
Law,
but
only
through
faith
in Christ
Jesus.
\VS{16}So
we
placed
our
faith
in
Christ
Jesus,
in
order
that
we
might
be
pronounced
righteous,
as
the
result
of
faith
in
Christ,
and
not
of
obedience
to
Law;
for
such
obedience
will
not
result
in
even
one
soul’s
being
pronounced
righteous.
\VS{17}If,
while
seeking
to
be
pronounced
righteous
through
union
with
Christ,
we
were
ourselves
seen
to
be
sinners,
would
that
make
Christ
an agent
of
sin?
Heaven
forbid!
\VS{18}For,
if
I
rebuild
the
things
that
I
pulled
down,
I
prove
myself
to
have
done
wrong.
\VS{19}I,
indeed,
through
Law
became
dead
to
Law,
in
order
to
live
for
God.
\VS{20}I
have
been
crucified
with
Christ.
So
it
is
no
longer
I
that
live,
but
it
is
Christ
who
lives
in
me;
and,
as
for
my
present
earthly
life,
I
am
living
it
by
faith
in
the
Son
of
God,
who
loved
me
and
gave
himself
for
me.
\VS{21}I
do
not
reject
the
love
of
God.
If
righteousness
comes
through
Law,
then
there
was
no
need
for
Christ
to
die!

\par }{\BB \par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Foolish
Galatians!
Who
has
been enchanting
you –
you
before
whose
eyes
Jesus
Christ
was depicted
on
the
cross?
\VS{2}Here
is
the
one
thing
that
I
want
to
find
out
from
you –
Did
you
receive
the
Spirit
as
the
result
of
obedience
to
Law,
or
of
your
having
listened
with
faith?
\VS{3}Can
you
be
so
foolish?
After
beginning
with
what
is
spiritual,
do
you
now
end
with
what
is external?
\VS{4}Did
you
go
through
so
much
to
no
purpose? –
if
indeed
it
really
was
to
no
purpose!
\VS{5}He
who
supplies
you
abundantly
with
his
Spirit
and endows
you
with
such
powers –
does
he
do
this
as
the
result
of
obedience
to
Law?
Or
as
the
result
of
your
having
listened
with
faith?
\VS{6}It
is
just
as
it
was
with
Abraham –
\par }{\Q he
had
faith
in
God,
and
his
faith
was
regarded
by
God
as
righteousness.
\par }{\MM \VS{7}You
see,
then,
that
those
whose
lives
are
based
on
faith
are
the
sons
of
Abraham.
\VS{8}And
scripture, foreseeing
that
God
would
pronounce
the
Gentiles
righteous
as
the
result
of
faith, foretold
the
good
news
to
Abraham
in
the
words –
\par }{\Q “Through
you
all
the
Gentiles
will
be
blessed.”
\par }{\MM \VS{9}And,
therefore,
those
whose
lives
are
based
on
faith
share
the
blessings
bestowed
on
the
faith
of
Abraham.
\VS{10}All
who
rely
on
obedience
to
Law
are
under
a
curse,
for
scripture
says –
\par }{\Q “Cursed
is
everyone
who
does
not
abide
by
all
that
is
written
in
the
book
of
the
Law,
and
do
it.”
\par }{\MM \VS{11}Again,
it
is
evident
that
no
one
is
pronounced
righteous
before
God
through
Law,
for
we
read –
\par }{\Q “Through
faith
the
righteous
will
find
life.”
\par }{\MM \VS{12}But
the
Law
is
not
based
on
faith;
no,
its
words
are –
\par }{\Q “Those
who
practice
these
precepts
will
find
life
through
them.”
\par }{\MM \VS{13}Christ
ransomed
us
from
the
curse
pronounced
in
the
Law,
by
taking
the
curse
on
himself
for
us,
for
scripture
says –
\par }{\Q “Cursed
is
anyone
who
is
hanged
on
a
tree.”
\par }{\MM \VS{14}And
this
he
did
that
the
blessing
given
to
Abraham
might
be
extended
to
the
Gentiles
through
their
union
with
Jesus
Christ;
that
so,
through
our
faith,
we
also
might
receive
the
promised
gift
of
the
Spirit.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}To
take
an illustration,
friends,
from
daily
life –
No
one
sets
aside
even
an
agreement
between
two
people,
when
once
it
has
been
confirmed,
nor
do
they
add
conditions
to
it.
\VS{16}Now
it
was
to
Abraham
that
the
promises
were
made, “and
to
his
offspring.”
It
was
not
said “to
his offsprings,”
as
if
many
persons
were
meant,
but
the
words
were “to
your
offspring,”
showing
that
one
person
was
meant –
and
that
was
Christ.
\VS{17}My
point
is
this –
An
agreement
already
confirmed
by
God
cannot
be
canceled
by
the
Law,
which
came
four
hundred
and
thirty
years
later,
so
as
to
cause
the
promise
to
be
set
aside.
\VS{18}If
our
heritage
is
the
result
of
Law,
then
it
has
ceased
to
be
the
result
of
a
promise.
Yet
God
conferred
it
on
Abraham
by
a
promise.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}What,
then,
you
ask,
was
the
use
of
the
Law?
It
was
a
later
addition,
to
make
people
conscious
of
their wrongdoings,
and
intended
to
last
only
until
the
coming
of
that
offspring
to
whom
the
promise
had
been
made;
and
it
was
delivered
through
angels
by
a
mediator.
\VS{20}Now mediation implies
more
than
one
person,
but
God
is
one
only.
\VS{21}Does
that
set
the
Law
in
opposition
to
God’s
promises?
Heaven
forbid!
For,
if
a
Law
had
been
given
capable
of bestowing
life,
then
righteousness
would
have
actually owed
its existence
to
Law.
\VS{22}But
the
words
of
scripture
represent
the
whole
world
as
being
in
bondage
to
sin,
so
that
the
promised
blessing,
dependent,
as
it
is,
on
faith
in
Jesus
Christ,
may
be
given
to
those
who
have
faith
in
him.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{23}Before
the
coming
of
faith,
we
were
kept
under
the
guard
of
the
Law,
in
bondage, awaiting
the
faith
that
was
destined
to
be
revealed.
\VS{24}Thus
the
Law
has
proved
a
guide
to
lead
us
to
Christ,
in
order
that
we
may
be
pronounced
righteous
as
the
result
of
faith.
\VS{25}But
now
that
faith
has
come
we
no
longer
need
a
guide.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}For
you
are
all
sons
of
God,
through
your
faith
in
Christ
Jesus.
\VS{27}For
all
of
you
who
were baptized
into
union
with
Christ
clothed
yourselves
with
Christ.
\VS{28}All distinctions
between
Jew
and
Greek,
slave
and
free,
male
and
female,
have
vanished;
for
in
union
with
Christ
Jesus
you
are
all
one.
\VS{29}And,
since
you
belong
to
Christ,
it
follows
that
you
are
Abraham’s
offspring
and,
under
the
promise, sharers
in
the
inheritance.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}My
point
is
this –
as
long
as
the
heir
is
under
age,
there
is
no
difference
between
him
and
a
slave,
though
he
is
master
of
the
whole
estate.
\VS{2}He
is
subject
to
the
control
of
guardians
and
stewards,
during
the
period
for
which
his
father
has
power
to
appoint
them.
\VS{3}And
so
is
it
with
us;
when
we
were
under
age,
as
it
were,
we
were
slaves
to
the puerile
teaching
of
this
world;
\VS{4}but,
when
the
full
time
came,
God
sent
his
Son –
born
a
woman’s
child,
born
subject
to
Law –
\VS{5}to
ransom
those
who
were
subject
to
Law,
so
that
we
might
take
our
position
as
sons.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}And
it
is
because
you
are
sons
that
God
sent
into
our
hearts
the
Spirit
of
his
Son,
with
the
cry – “Abba,
our
Father.”
\VS{7}You,
therefore,
are
no
longer
a
slave,
but
a
son;
and,
if
a
son,
then
an
heir
also,
by
God’s
appointment.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{8}Yet
formerly,
in
your
ignorance
of
God,
you
became
slaves
to “gods”
which
were
no
gods.
\VS{9}But
now
that
you
have
found
God –
or,
rather,
have
been
found
by
him –
how
is
it
that
you
are
turning
back
to
that
poor
and
feeble puerile
teaching,
to
which
yet
once
again
you
are
wanting
to
become
slaves?
\VS{10}You
are scrupulous
in
keeping
days
and
months
and
seasons
and
years!
\VS{11}You
make
me
fear
that
the
labour
which
I
have
spent
on
you
may
have
been
wasted.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{12}I
entreat
you,
friends,
to
become
like
me,
as
I
became
like
you.
You
have
never
done
me
any
wrong.
\VS{13}You
remember
that
it
was owing
to
bodily
infirmity
that
on
the
first
occasion
I
told
you
the
good
news.
\VS{14}And
as
for
what
must
have
tried
you
in
my
condition,
it
did
not inspire
you
with
scorn
or disgust,
but
you
welcomed
me
as
if
I
had
been
an
angel
of
God –
or
Christ
Jesus
himself!
\VS{15}What
has
become
then,
of
your
blessings?
For
I
can
bear
witness
that,
had
it
been
possible,
you
would
have
torn
out
your
eyes
and
given
them
to
me!
\VS{16}Am
I
to
think,
then,
that
I
have
become
your
enemy
by
telling
you
the
truth?
\VS{17}Certain
people
are
seeking
your
favour,
but
with
no
honourable
object.
No,
indeed,
they
want
to
isolate
you,
so
that
you
will
have
to
seek
their
favour.
\VS{18}It
is
always
honourable
to
have
your
favour
sought
in
an
honourable
cause,
and
not
only
when
I
am
with
you,
my
dear
children –
\VS{19}you
for
whom
I
am
again
enduring
a
mother’s
pains,
until
a
likeness
to
Christ
will
have
been
formed
in
you.
\VS{20}But
I
could
wish
to
be
with
you
now
and
speak
in
a
different
tone,
for
I
am
perplexed
about
you.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{21}Tell
me,
you
who
want
to
be
still
subject
to
Law –
Why
don’t
you
listen
to
the
Law?
\VS{22}Scripture
says
that
Abraham
had
two
sons,
one
the
child
of
the slave-woman
and
the
other
the
child
of
the
free
woman.
\VS{23}But
the
child
of
the slave-woman
was
born
in
the
course
of nature,
while
the
child
of
the
free
woman
was
born
in fulfilment
of
a
promise.
\VS{24}This
story
may
be
taken
as
an allegory.
The
women
stand
for
two
covenants.
One
covenant,
given
from
Mount
Sinai,
produces
a
race
of
slaves
and
is represented
by
Hagar.
\VS{25}Hagar
stands
for
Mount
Sinai
in
Arabia,
and
represents
the
Jerusalem
of
today,
for
she
and
her
children
are
in
slavery.
\VS{26}But
the
Jerusalem
above
is
free,
and
she
it
is
who
is
our
mother.
\VS{27}For
scripture
says –
\par }{\Q “Rejoice,
you
barren
one,
who
have
never
given
birth,
\par }{\Q break
into
shouts,
you
who
are
never
in
labour,
\par }{\QB for
many
are
the
children
of
her
who
is
desolate –
\par }{\QC yes,
more
than
of
her
who
has
a
husband.”
\par }{\MM \VS{28}As
for
ourselves,
friends,
we,
like
Isaac,
are
children
born
in fulfilment
of
a
promise.
\VS{29}Yet
at
that
time
the
child
born
in
the
course
of nature
persecuted
the
child
born
by
the
power
of
the
Spirit;
and
it
is
the
same
now.
\VS{30}But
what
does
the
passage
of
scripture
say?
\par }{\Q “Send
away
the slave-woman
and
her
son;
for
the
slave’s
son
will
not
be coheir
with
the
son
of
the
free
woman.”
\par }{\MM \VS{31}And
so,
friends,
we
are
not
children
of
a
slave,
but
of
her
who
is
free.

\par }\Chap{5}{\SH The Gospel in the Daily Life
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}It
is
for
freedom
that
Christ
set
us
free;
stand
firm
therefore,
and
do
not
again
be
held
under
the
yoke
of
slavery.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP p
\VS{2}Understand
that
I,
Paul,
myself
tell
you
that
if
you
allow
yourselves
to
be
circumcised,
Christ
will
avail
you
nothing.
\VS{3}I
again
declare
to
everyone
who
receives
circumcision,
that
he
binds
himself
to
obey
the
whole
Law.
\VS{4}You
have
severed
yourselves
from
Christ –
you
who
are
seeking
to
be
pronounced
righteous
through
Law;
you
have
fallen
away
from
love.
\VS{5}For
we,
by
the
help
of
the
Spirit,
are
eagerly
waiting
for
the fulfilment
of
our
hope –
that
we
may
be
pronounced
righteous
as
the
result
of
faith.
\VS{6}If
we
are
in
union
with
Christ
Jesus,
neither
is
circumcision
nor
the omission
of
it
anything,
but
faith,
working
through
love,
is
everything.
\VS{7}You
were
once
making
good progress!
Who
has
hindered
you
from
obeying
the
truth?
\VS{8}The
persuasion
brought
to
bear
on
you
does
not
come
from
him
who
calls
you.
\VS{9}A
little
yeast
leavens
all
the
dough.
\VS{10}I,
through
my
union
with
the
Lord,
am
persuaded
that
you
will
learn
to
think
with
me.
But
the
man
who
is
disturbing
your
minds
will
have
to
bear
his
punishment,
whoever
he
may
be.
\VS{11}If
I,
friends,
am
still
proclaiming
circumcision,
why
am
I
still
persecuted?
It
seems
that
the
cross
has
ceased
to
be
an
obstacle!
\VS{12}I
could
even
wish
that
the
people
who
are unsettling
you
would
go
further
still
and mutilate
themselves.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{13}Remember,
friends,
to
you
the
call
came
to
give
you
freedom.
Only,
do
not
make
your
freedom
an opportunity
for self-indulgence
but
serve
one
another
in
a
loving
spirit.
\VS{14}Indeed,
the
whole
Law
has
been summed
up
in
this
one
precept –
\par }{\Q “You
must
love
your
neighbour
as
you
love
yourself.”
\par }{\MM \VS{15}But,
if
you
are
continually
wounding
and preying
on
one
another,
take
care
that
you
are
not
destroyed
by
one
another.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}This
is
what
I
have
to
say –
Let
your
steps
be
guided
by
the
Spirit,
and
then
you
will
never gratify
the cravings
of
your
earthly nature.
\VS{17}For
these cravings
of
our
earthly nature
conflict
with
the
Spirit,
and
the
Spirit
with
our
earthly nature –
they
are
two
contrary principles –
so
that
you
cannot
do
what
you
wish.
\VS{18}But,
if
you
follow
the
guidance
of
the
Spirit,
you
are
not
subject
to
Law.
\VS{19}The
sins
of
our
earthly nature
are unmistakable.
They
are
sins
like
these –
sexual
immorality,
impurity,
indecency,
\VS{20}idolatry,
sorcery,
quarrels,
strife,
jealousy,
outbursts
of
passion, rivalries,
dissensions,
divisions,
\VS{21}feelings
of
envy,
drunkenness, revelry,
and
the
like.
And
I
warn
you,
as
I
warned
you
before,
that
those
who indulge
in
such
things
will
have
no
place
in
the
kingdom
of
God.
\VS{22}But
the
fruit
produced
by
the
Spirit
is
love,
joy,
peace,
forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness,
gentleness, self-control.
\VS{23}Against
such
things
there
is
no
law!
\VS{24}And
those
who
belong
to
Jesus,
the
Christ,
have
already
crucified
their
earthly nature,
with
its
passions
and
its cravings.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}Since
our
life
is
due
to
the
Spirit,
let
us
rule
our
conduct
also
by
the
Spirit.
\VS{26}Do
not
let
us
grow
vain,
and
provoke
or
envy
one
another.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}My
friends,
even
if
someone
should
be
caught
committing
a
sin,
you
who
are
spiritually
minded
should,
in
a
gentle
spirit,
help
them
to
recover
themselves,
taking
care
that
you
yourselves
are
not
tempted.
\VS{2}Bear
one
another’s
burdens,
and
so
carry
out
the
Law
of
the
Christ.
\VS{3}If
a
person imagines
themselves
to
be
somebody,
when
they
are
really
nobody,
they
deceive
themselves.
\VS{4}Let
everyone
test
their
own
work,
and
then
their
cause
for
satisfaction
will
be
in
themselves
and
not
in
a
comparison
with
their
neighbour;
\VS{5}for
everyone
must
bear
their
own
load.
\VS{6}The
person,
however,
who
is
being
instructed
in
the
message
ought
always
to
share
their
blessings
with
their
teacher.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Do
not
be
deceived.
God
cannot
be
mocked.
What
a
person
sows
that
they
will
reap.
\VS{8}For
the
person
who
sows
the
field
of
their
earthly nature
will
from
that
earthly nature
reap
corruption;
while
the
one
who
sows
the
field
of
the
spirit
will
from
that
spirit
reap
eternal
life.
\VS{9}Let
us
never
tire
of
doing
right,
for
at
the
proper
season
we
will
reap
our
harvest,
if
we
do
not
grow
weary.
\VS{10}Therefore,
I
say,
as
the
opportunity
occurs,
let
us
treat
everyone
with
kindness,
and
especially
members
of
the
household
of
the
faith.
\par }{\SH Conclusion
in
the Apostle’s
own handwriting
\par }{\PP \VS{11}See
in
what
large
letters
I
am
writing
with
my
own
hand.
\VS{12}The
people
who
are
trying
to
compel
you
to
be
circumcised
are
the
people
who
wish
to
appear
to
advantage
in
regard
to
outward observances.
They
do
it
only
to
avoid
being
persecuted
for
the
cross
of
Jesus,
the
Christ
\VS{13}Even
these
men
who
are
circumcised
do
not
themselves
keep
the
Law;
yet
they
want
you
to
be
circumcised,
so
that
they
may
boast
of
your
observance
of
the
rite.
\VS{14}But,
for
my
part,
may
I
never
boast
of
anything
except
the
cross
of
Jesus
Christ,
our
Master,
through
whom
the
world
has
been
crucified
to
me,
and
I
to
the
world.
\VS{15}For
neither
is
circumcision
nor
the omission
of
it
anything;
but
a
new nature
is
everything.
\VS{16}May
all
who
rule
their
conduct
by
this principle
find
peace
and
mercy –
they
who
are
the
Israel
of
God.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{17}For
the
future
let
no
one
trouble
me;
for
I
bear
the
marks
of
Jesus branded
on
my
body.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{18}May
the
blessing
of
Jesus
Christ,
our
Lord,
rest
on
your
souls,
friends.
Amen.\par }