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GALATIANS 1
Greeting
1From Paul, an apostle who is not sent from human authority or commissioned through human agency, but sent through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead; 2and from all the brothers and sisters with me.
To the churches in Galatia.
3Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4He gave himself for our sins, so he could deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father. 5To God be the glory forever and always! Amen.
The gospel challenged in Galatia
6I’m amazed that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ to follow another gospel. 7It’s not really another gospel, but certain people are confusing you and they want to change the gospel of Christ. 8However, even if we ourselves or a heavenly angel should ever preach anything different from what we preached to you, they should be under a curse. 9I’m repeating what we’ve said before: if anyone preaches something different from what you received, they should be under a curse!
Paul’s leadership
10Am I trying to win over human beings or God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I wouldn’t be Christ’s slave. 11Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the gospel I preached isn’t human in origin. 12I didn’t receive it or learn it from a human. It came through a revelation from Jesus Christ.
13You heard about my previous life in Judaism, how severely I harassed God’s church and tried to destroy it. 14I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my peers, because I was much more militant about the traditions of my ancestors. 15But God had set me apart from birth and called me through his grace. He was pleased 16to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach about him to the Gentiles. I didn’t immediately consult with any human being. 17I didn’t go up to Jerusalem to see the men who were apostles before me either, but I went away into Arabia and I returned again to Damascus. 18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days. 19But I didn’t see any other of the apostles except James the brother of the Lord. 20Before God, I’m not lying about the things that I’m writing to you! 21Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, 22but I wasn’t known personally by the Christian churches in Judea. 23They only heard a report about me: “The man who used to harass us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.” 24So they were glorifying God because of me.
GALATIANS 2
Confirmation of Paul’s leadership
1Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, and I took Titus along also. 2I went there because of a revelation, and I laid out the gospel that I preach to the Gentiles for them. But I did it privately with the influential leaders to make sure that I wouldn’t be working or that I hadn’t worked for nothing. 3However, not even Titus, who was with me and who was a Greek, was required to be circumcised. 4But false brothers and sisters, who were brought in secretly, slipped in to spy on our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, and to make us slaves. 5We didn’t give in and submit to them for a single moment, so that the truth of the gospel would continue to be with you.
6The influential leaders didn’t add anything to what I was preaching—and whatever they were makes no difference to me, because God doesn’t show favoritism. 7But on the contrary, they saw that I had been given the responsibility to preach the gospel to the people who aren’t circumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised. 8The one who empowered Peter to become an apostle to the circumcised empowered me also to be one to the Gentiles. 9James, Cephas, and John, who are considered to be key leaders, shook hands with me and Barnabas as equals when they recognized the grace that was given to me. So it was agreed that we would go to the Gentiles, while they continue to go to the people who were circumcised. 10They asked only that we would remember the poor, which was certainly something I was willing to do.
The Jewish-Gentile controversy
11But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was wrong. 12He had been eating with the Gentiles before certain people came from James. But when they came, he began to back out and separate himself, because he was afraid of the people who promoted circumcision. 13And the rest of the Jews also joined him in this hypocrisy so that even Barnabas got carried away with them in their hypocrisy. 14But when I saw that they weren’t acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of everyone, “If you, though you’re a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you require the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
15We are born Jews—we’re not Gentile sinners. 16However, we know that a person isn’t made righteous by the works of the Law but rather through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. We ourselves believed in Christ Jesus so that we could be made righteous by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the Law—because no one will be made righteous by the works of the Law. 17But if it is discovered that we ourselves are sinners while we are trying to be made righteous in Christ, then is Christ a servant of sin? Absolutely not! 18If I rebuild the very things that I tore down, I show that I myself am breaking the Law. 19I died to the Law through the Law, so that I could live for God. 20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live in my body, I live by faith, indeed, by the faithfulness of God’s Son, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21I don’t ignore the grace of God, because if we become righteous through the Law, then Christ died for no purpose.
GALATIANS 3
Works versus the Spirit
1You irrational Galatians! Who put a spell on you? Jesus Christ was put on display as crucified before your eyes! 2I just want to know this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the Law or by believing what you heard? 3Are you so irrational? After you started with the Spirit, are you now finishing up with your own human effort? 4Did you experience so much for nothing? I wonder if it really was for nothing. 5So does the one providing you with the Spirit and working miracles among you do this by you doing the works of the Law or by you believing what you heard?
Abraham: an example of righteousness
6Understand that in the same way that Abraham “believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness,” 7those who believe are the children of Abraham. 8But when it saw ahead of time that God would make the Gentiles righteous on the basis of faith, scripture preached the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All the Gentiles will be blessed in you”. 9Therefore, those who believe are blessed together with Abraham who believed.
10All those who rely on the works of the Law are under a curse, because it is written, “Everyone is cursed who does not keep on doing all the things that have been written in the Law scroll”. 11But since no one is made righteous by the Law as far as God is concerned, it is clear that “the righteous one will live on the basis of faith”. 12The Law isn’t based on faith; rather, “the one doing these things will live by them”. 13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us—because it is written, “Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed”. 14He redeemed us so that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, and that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15Brothers and sisters, I’ll use an example from human experience. No one ignores or makes additions to a validated will. 16The promises were made to Abraham and to his descendant. It doesn’t say, “and to the descendants,” as if referring to many rather than just one. It says, “and to your descendant,” who is Christ. 17I’m saying this: the Law, which came four hundred thirty years later, doesn’t invalidate the agreement that was previously validated by God so that it cancels the promise. 18If the inheritance were based upon the Law, it would no longer be from the promise. But God has given it graciously to Abraham through a promise.
The Law’s origin and purpose
19So why was the Law given? It was added because of offenses, until the descendant would come to whom the promise had been made. It was put in place through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20Now the mediator does not take one side; but God is one. 21So, is the Law against the promises of God? Absolutely not! If a Law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would in fact have come from the Law. 22But scripture locked up all things under sin, so that the promise based on the faithfulness of Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith. 23Before faith came, we were guarded under the Law, locked up until faith that was coming would be revealed, 24so that the Law became our custodian until Christ so that we might be made righteous by faith.
God’s children are heirs in Christ
25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian.
26You are all God’s children through faith in Christ Jesus. 27All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free; nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29Now if you belong to Christ, then indeed you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.
GALATIANS 4
1I’m saying that as long as the heirs are minors, they are no different from slaves, though they really are the owners of everything. 2However, they are placed under trustees and guardians until the date set by the parents. 3In the same way, when we were minors, we were also enslaved by this world’s system. 4But when the fulfillment of the time came, God sent his Son, born through a woman, and born under the Law. 5This was so he could redeem those under the Law so that we could be adopted. 6Because you are sons and daughters, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” 7Therefore, you are no longer a slave but a son or daughter, and if you are his child, then you are also an heir through God.
Paul’s concern for the Galatians
8At the time, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved by things that aren’t gods by nature. 9But now, after knowing God (or rather, being known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless world system? Do you want to be slaves to it again? 10You observe religious days and months and seasons and years. 11I’m afraid for you! Perhaps my hard work for you has been for nothing.
12I beg you to be like me, brothers and sisters, because I have become like you! You haven’t wronged me. 13You know that I first preached the gospel to you because of an illness. 14Though my poor health burdened you, you didn’t look down on me or reject me, but you welcomed me as if I were an angel from God, or as if I were Christ Jesus! 15Where then is the great attitude that you had? I swear that, if possible, you would have dug out your eyes and given them to me. 16So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17They are so concerned about you, though not with good intentions. Rather, they want to shut you out so that you would run after them. 18However, it’s always good to have people concerned about you with good intentions, and not just when I’m there with you. 19My little children, I’m going through labor pains again until Christ is formed in you. 20But I wish I could be with you now and change how I sound, because I’m at a loss about you.
Slave versus free
21Tell me—those of you who want to be under the Law—don’t you listen to the Law? 22It’s written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. 23The son by the slave woman was conceived the normal way, but the son by the free woman was conceived through a promise. 24These things are an allegory: the women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, which gives birth to slave children; this is Hagar. 25Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and she corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because the city is in slavery with her children. 26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. 27It’s written:
“Rejoice, barren woman, you who have not given birth”.
“Break out with a shout, you who have not suffered labor pains; ”
“because the woman who has been deserted will have many more children ”
“than the woman who has a husband”.
28Brothers and sisters, you are children of the promise like Isaac. 29But just as it was then, so it is now also: the one who was conceived the normal way harassed the one who was conceived by the Spirit. 30But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son, because the slave woman’s son won’t share the inheritance with the free woman’s son”. 31Therefore, brothers and sisters, we aren’t the slave woman’s children, but we are the free woman’s children.
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