1:1Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --

1:2and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

1:3Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

1:4who 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,

1:5to whom is the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.

1:6I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

1:7that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;

1:8but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!

1:9as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!

1:10for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

1:11And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,

1:12for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,

1:13for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

1:14and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,

1:15and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace --

1:16to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

1:17nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,

1:18then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,

1:19and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.

1:20And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;

1:21then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,

1:22and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that are in Christ,

1:23and only they were hearing, that `he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news -- the faith that then he was wasting;'

1:24and they were glorifying God in me.

2:1Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;

2:2and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

2:3but not even Titus, who is with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --

2:4and 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 us they might bring under bondage,

2:5to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.

2:6And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,

2:7but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with that of the circumcision,

2:8for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,

2:9and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision may go,

2:10only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.

2:11And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,

2:12for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

2:13and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.

2:14But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

2:15we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,

2:16having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

2:17And 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!

2:18for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;

2:19for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

2:20with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

2:21I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law -- then Christ died in vain.

3:1O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

3:2this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?

3:3so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

3:4so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.

3:5He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith is it?

3:6according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

3:7know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,

3:8and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham -- `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;'

3:9so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,

3:10for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath 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,'

3:11and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'

3:12and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them shall live in them.'

3:13Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

3:14that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.

3:15Brethren, as a man I say it, even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

3:16and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

3:17and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

3:18for if by law be the inheritance, it is no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant it.

3:19Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --

3:20and the mediator is not of one, and God is one --

3:21the 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 by law there would have been the righteousness,

3:22but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

3:23And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

3:24so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

3:25and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,

3:26for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

3:27for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

3:28there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

3:29and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.