The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the GALATIANS
The Modern Young's Literal Translation© 2005



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CHAPTER 1

1  Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --
2  and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
3  Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4  who did give Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
5  to whom [is] the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.
6  I wonder that you are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;
7  that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;
8  but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- let him be cursed!
9  as we have said before, and now say again, If any one may proclaim good news to you different from what you did receive -- let him be cursed!
10  for now do I persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet I did please men -- I should not be Christ's servant.
11  And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,
12  for neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught [it], but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,
13  for you did hear of my behavior once in Judaism, that I was exceedingly persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,
14  and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,
15  and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called [me] through His grace --
16  to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim Him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,
17  nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,
18  then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,
19  and I did not see other of the apostles, except James, the brother of the Lord.
20  And the things that I write to you, behold, before God -- I lie not;
21  then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,
22  and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that [are] in Christ,
23  and only they were hearing, that `he who is persecuting us then, does now proclaim good news -- the faith that then he was wasting;'
24  and they were glorifying God in me.


CHAPTER 2

1  Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;
2  and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, for fear that in vain I might run or did run;
3  but not even Titus, who [is] with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --
4  and [that] because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us under bondage,
5  to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.
6  And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it makes no difference to me -- God accepts not the face of man, for -- those esteemed did add nothing to me,
7  but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with [that] of the circumcision,
8  for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,
9  and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, they did give to me a right hand of fellowship, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they [may go] to the circumcision,
10  only, that we should be mindful of the poor, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.
11  And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,
12  for before the coming of certain from James, he was eating with the nations, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,
13  and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.
14  But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If you, being a Jew, do live in the manner of the nations, and not in the manner of the Jews, how do you compel the nations to Judaize?
15  we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,
16  having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we did believe in Christ Jesus, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, for what reason shall no flesh be declared righteous by works of law.'
17  And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, [is] then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!
18  for if the things I threw down, I build these up again, I set myself forth a transgressor;
19  for I through law, did die, that I may live to God;
20  I have been crucified with Christ, and I do live no more, and Christ does live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- I live in the faith of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
21  I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness [be] through law -- then Christ died in vain.


CHAPTER 3

1  O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ crucified was described before among you?
2  this only do I wish to learn from you -- did you receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?
3  so thoughtless are you! having begun in the Spirit, now do you end in the flesh?
4  so many things did you suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.
5  He, for that reason, who is supplying the Spirit to you, and working mighty acts among you -- [is it] by works of law or by the hearing of faith?
6  according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;
7  know you, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,
8  and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God does declare righteous the nations, did proclaim to Abraham before the good news --
9  `Blessed shall be all the nations in you;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,
10  for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it has been written, `Cursed [is] every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'
11  and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous shall live by faith;'
12  and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them shall live in them.'
13  Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it has been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
14  that the blessing of Abraham may come to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.
15  Brethren, as a man I say [it], no one does make void or does add to even a confirmed covenant of man,
16  and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He does not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to you seed,' which is Christ;
17  and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, does not set aside, to make void the promise,
18  for if the inheritance [be] by law, [it is] no more by promise, but God did grant [it] to Abraham through promise.
19  Why, then, the law? it was added on account of the transgressions, till the seed might come to which the promise had been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --
20  and the mediator is not of one, and God is one --
21  the law, then, [is] against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly there would have been the righteousness by law,
22  but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
23  And before the coming of the faith, we were being kept under law, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,
24  so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,
25  and the faith having come, we are under a child-conductor no more,
26  for you are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
27  for as many as were baptized to Christ did put on Christ;
28  there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all you are one in Christ Jesus;
29  and if you [are] of Christ then you are seed of Abraham, and according to promise -- heirs.


CHAPTER 4

1  And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differs nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,
2  but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,
3  so also we, when we were babes, were in servitude under the elements of the world,
4  and when the fullness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,
5  that he may redeem those under law, that we may receive the adoption of sons;
6  and because you are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'
7  so that you are no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
8  But then, indeed, not having known God, you were in servitude to those not by nature gods,
9  and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn you again unto the weak and poor elements to which you desire to be in servitude anew?
10  you observe days, and months, and times, and years!
11  I am afraid of you, for fear that I did labor in vain toward you.
12  Become as I [am] -- because I also [am] as your brethren, I beg you; you did no hurt to me,
13  and you have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,
14  and you did not despise nor reject my trial that [is] in my flesh, but you did receive me as a messenger of God -- as Christ Jesus;
15  what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, you would have given to me;
16  so that have I become your enemy, being true to you?
17  they are zealous for you -- [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that you may be zealous for them;
18  and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;
19  my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,
20  and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.
21  Tell me, you who are willing to be under law, do you not hear the law?
22  for it has been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,
23  but he who [is] of the maid-servant, has been according to flesh, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;
24  which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to bringing forth servitude, which is Hagar;
25  for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and does correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children,
26  and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,
27  for it has been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who are not bearing; break forth and cry, you who are not travailing, because many [are] the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'
28  And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,
29  but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;
30  but what said the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'
31  then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.


CHAPTER 5

1  In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand you, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
2  behold, I Paul do say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;
3  and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;
4  you were freed from the Christ, you who are declared righteous in law; you fell away from the grace;
5  for we by the Spirit, by faith, do wait for a hope of righteousness,
6  for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision serves anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
7  You were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?
8  the obedience [is] not of him who is calling you!
9  a little leaven does leaven the whole lump;
10  I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
11  And I, brethren, if I yet preach uncircumcision, why yet am I persecuted? then has the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;
12  O that even they who are unsettling you would cut themselves off!
13  For you -- you were called to freedom, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but serve you one another through the love,
14  for all the law is fulfilled in one word -- in this: `You shall love your neighbour as yourself;'
15  and if you do bite and devour one another, see -- that you may not be consumed by one another.
16  And I say: In the Spirit walk you, and you may not complete the desire of the flesh;
17  for the flesh does desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that you may will -- these you may not do;
18  and if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
19  And revealed also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20  idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,
21  envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things shall not inherit the reign of God.
22  And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
23  meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
24  and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
25  if we may live in the Spirit, also we may walk in the Spirit;
26  let us not become vain-glorious -- provoking one another, envying one another!


CHAPTER 6

1  Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, you who [are] spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering yourself -- for fear that you may be tempted also;
2  bear you the burdens of one another, and so fill up the law of the Christ,
3  for if any one does think [himself] to be something -- being nothing -- he does deceive himself;
4  and let each one prove his own work, and then he shall have the glorying in regard to himself alone , and not in regard to the other,
5  for each one shall bear his own burden.
6  And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.
7  Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,
8  because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
9  and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;
10  for that reason, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.
11  You see how I have written to you in large letters with my own hand;
12  as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Christ,
13  for neither do those circumcised keep the law themselves, but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
14  And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world;
15  for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision serves anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;
16  and as many as do walk by this rule -- peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!
17  From this time forth, let no one give me trouble, for I do bear the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body.
18  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with your spirit, brethren! Amen.



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