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13 givings unto God; seeing that through the proving of you by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the 1liberality of your contribution unto 14 them and unto all; while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding 15 grace of God in you. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

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Now I Paul myself intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you 2 yea,

beseech you, that I may not when present shew courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, which count of us as if we walked according 3 to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh 4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strong holds); 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the 6 obedience of Christ; and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled. 73 Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any

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man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we. For though 8 I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning_our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame: that I may not seem as if I 9 would terrify you by my letters. For, His letters, 10 they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account. Let such a reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present. For we are not bold 12 to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. But we will 13 not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you. For 14 we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we 6 came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ: not 15 glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labours; but having hope that, as your

4 Gr. 5 Or, limit Gr.

1 Gr. singleness. 2 Or, reasonings 3 Or, Do ye look... face? to judge ourselves among, or to judge ourselves with. measuring-rod. 6 Or, were the first to come

faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our 1province unto further 16 abundance, so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our 17 hand. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

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Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: 2nay indeed bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a 3 pure virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that 4 is toward Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with 5 him. For I reckon that I am not a whit behind 5 the 6 very chiefest apostles. But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in everything we have made it manifest among all 7 men to you-ward. Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted,

because I preached to you the
gospel of God for nought? Is
robbed other churches, taking
wages of them that I might
minister unto you; and when 9
I was present with you and
was in want, I was not a
burden on any man; for the
brethren, when they came
from Macedonia, supplied the
measure of my want; and in
everything I kept myself from
being burdensome unto you,
and so will I keep myself. As 10
the truth of Christ is in me,
no man shall stop me of this
glorying in the regions of
Achaia. Wherefore? because 11
I love you not? God knoweth.
But what I do, that I will do, 12
that I may cut off occasion
from them which desire an
occasion; that wherein they
glory, they may be found even
as we. For such men are false 13
apostles, deceitful workers,
fashioning themselves into
apostles of Christ. And no 14
marvel; for even Satan fa-
shioneth himself into an angel
of light. It is no great thing 15
therefore if his ministers also
fashion themselves as minis-
ters of righteousness; whose
end shall be according to
their works.

I say again, Let no man 16
think me foolish; but if ye do,
yet as foolish receive me, that
I also may glory a little.
That which I speak, I speak 17
not after the Lord, but as in
foolishness, in this confidence
of glorying. Seeing that many 18

1 Or, limit Gr. measuring-rod. 2 Or, but indeed ye do bear with me. 4 Gr. thoughts.

3 Gr. a jealousy of God.

apostles 6 Gr. the occasion of them.

5 Or, those preeminent

glory after the flesh, I will 19 glory also. For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise 20 yourselves. For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth 21 you on the face. I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am 22 bold also. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed 23 of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above mea24 sure, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty 25 stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day 26 have I been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my 1countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false 27 brethren; in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 282 Beside those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.

1 Gr. race.

Who is weak, and I am not 29
weak? who is made to stum-
ble, and I burn not? If I 30
must needs glory, I will glory
of the things that concern
my weakness. The God and 31
Father of the Lord Jesus, he
who is blessed 3 for evermore,
knoweth that I lie not.
In 32
Damascus the governor under
Aretas the king guarded the
city of the Damascenes, in
order to take me: and through 33
a window was I let down in
a basket by the wall, and
escaped his hands.

4 I must needs glory, though 1 12
it is not expedient; but I will
come to visions and revela-
tions of the Lord. I know 2
a

man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven. And I know such a 3 man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth), how that 4 he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. On be- 5 half of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses. For if I should desire 6 to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me to be, or heareth from me.

2 Or, Beside the things which I omit Or, Beside the things that come out of course 3 Gr. unto the ages. 4 Some ancient authorities read Now to glory is not expedient, but I will come &c.

7 And by reason of the ex-
ceeding greatness of the re-
velations wherefore, that I
should not be exalted over-
much, there was given to me
a 1thorn in the flesh, a messen-
ger of Satan to buffet me, that
I should not be exalted over-
8 much. Concerning this thing
I besought the Lord thrice,
that it might depart from me.
9 And he hath said unto me,
My grace is sufficient for
thee: for my power is made
perfect in weakness. Most
gladly therefore will I rather
glory in my weaknesses, that
the strength of Christ may
102 rest upon me. Wherefore I
take pleasure in weaknesses,
in injuries, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses, for
Christ's sake: for when I am
weak, then am I strong.
11 I am become foolish: ye
compelled me; for I ought to
have been commended of you:
for in nothing was I behind
3the very chiefest apostles,
12 though I am nothing. Truly
the signs of an apostle were
wrought among you in all
patience, by signs and won-
13 ders and mighty works. For
what is there wherein ye were
made inferior to the rest of
the churches, except it be that
I myself was not a burden
to you? forgive me this wrong.

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Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the

children ought not to lay up
for the parents, but the parents
for the children. And I will 15
most gladly spend and be
5 spent for your souls. If I
love you more abundantly, am
I loved the less? But be it so, 16
I did not myself burden you;
but, being crafty, I caught you
with guile. Did I take ad- 17
vantage of you by any one of
them whom I have sent unto
you? I exhorted Titus, and 18
I sent the brother with him.
Did Titus take any advantage
of you? walked we not by the
same Spirit? walked we not
in the same steps?

6 Ye think all this time that 19
we are excusing ourselves un-
to you. In the sight of God
speak we in Christ. But all
things, beloved, are for your
edifying. For I fear, lest by 20
any means, when I come, I
should find you not such as
I would, and should myself
be found of you such as ye
would not; lest by any means
there should be strife, jealousy,
wraths, factions, backbitings,
whisperings, swellings, 7tu-
mults; lest, when I come 21
again, my God should humble
me before you, and I should
mourn for many of them that
have sinned heretofore, and
repented not of the unclean-
ness and fornication and las-
civiousness which they com-
mitted.

This is the third time I am 1 13 coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall

1 Or, stake 2 Or, cover me Gr. spread a tabernacle over me.

those preeminent apostles 4 Gr. powers. 5 Gr. spent out.

Think ye...you?

7 Or, disorders

3

Or,

6 Or,

2 every word be established. have said 1beforehand, and I do say 1beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare; 3 seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, 4 but is powerful in you: for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you. 5 Try your own selves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate. 6 But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate. 7 Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may

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THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE

GALATIANS.

PAUL, an apostle (not from | latia: Grace to you and peace 3 men, neither through man, 7 from God the Father, and but through Jesus Christ, and our Lord Jesus Christ, who 4 God the Father, who raised gave himself for our sins, 2 him from the dead), and all that he might deliver us out the brethren which are with of this present evil 8 world, me, unto the churches of Ga- according to the will of our

1 Or, plainly

I am now absent that.

2 Or, as if I were present the second time, even though 3 Many ancient authorities read with. 4 Gr. and 7 Some ancient au8 Or, age

6 Or, a man

5 Or, rejoice: be perfected thorities read from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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