7 And lest I should be exalted be burdensome to you: for I seek not above measure through the abun- yours, but you: for the children ought dance of the revelations, there was not to lay up for the parents, but the given to me a thorn in the flesh, parents for the children, the messenger of Satan to buffet 15 And I will very gladly spend me, lest I should be exalted above and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. measure. 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I make a gain of you by 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most any of them whom I sent unto gladly therefore will I rather glory you? in my infirmities, that the power of 18 I desired Titus, and with him I Christ may rest upon me. sent a brother. Did Titus make a 10 Therefore I take pleasure in gain of you? walked we not in the infirmities, in reproaches, in necessi- same spirit? walked we not in the ties, in persecutions, in distresses for same steps? Christ's sake: for when I am weak, 19 Again, think ye that we excuse then am I strong. ourselves unto you? we speak before II I am become a fool in glory-God in Christ: but we do all things, ing; ye have compelled me: for I dearly beloved, for your edifying. ought to have been commended of 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I you: for in nothing am I behind the shall not find you such as I would, very chiefest apostles, though I be and that I shall be found unto you nothing. such as ye would not: lest there 12 Truly the signs of an apostle be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, were wrought among you in all pa- backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tience, in signs, and wonders, and tumults: mighty deeds. 21 And lest, when I come again, 13 For what is it wherein ye were my God will humble me among you, inferior to other churches, except it be and that I shall bewail many which that I myself was not burdensome to have sinned already, and have not reyou? forgive me this wrong. pented of the uncleanness and forni14 Behold, the third time I am cation and lasciviousness which they ready to come to you; and I will not have committed. 8 A And for 7 SVA after buffet me om. lest I should be exalted above measure this thing 9 SVA for strength; V in infirmities 10 S and necessities; A om. in persecutions; SV in persecutions and distresses II SVA om. in glorying 12 SVA in all patience and (A om.) signs 14 SVA Behold this is the third time I am; SVA om. to you after burdensome 15 V for you, if the more abundantly loving you, the less I be loved, SA for you. If I love you more abundantly, am I less beloved? 19 SVA You have thought for some time that we excuse ourselves unto you. 20 SV debate; SV envying 2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. 4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear ap proved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. IO Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. II Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. 13, A Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come; S that in the mouth 2 SVA I told before and now I foretell, as if I were present the second time, and being absent, to them which 4 SV For he was crucified through weakness, but he liveth; V om. toward you 5 A om. prove your own selves; SA Christ Je7. SVA Now we pray II A om. be of one mind 14 V om. Christ; Subscription: SVA The second to the Corinthians. SV weak with him; sus; V is in you SVA om. Amen. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CHAPTER I. GALATIANS. PAUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) |for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. II But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord 13 For ye have heard of my conJesus Christ, versation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 14 And profited in the Jews' religion 5 To whom be glory for ever and above many my equals in mine own ever. Amen. 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: 17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. Title: SVA To the Galatians. 1,3 SA our Father; SA from the Lord 6 translate in the grace 8 Som. unto you before than 9 S As I said 10 SVA om. for before if II V For I certify 15 V it pleased him who 18 SVA to acquaint myself with Cephas 17 V neither went I unto Jerusalem 20 Now the things which I write 7 But contrariwise, when they saw unto you, behold, before God, I lie that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the not. 21 Afterwards I came into the re-gospel of the circumcision was unto gions of Syria and Cilicia; Peter; 22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ: 23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. 24 And they glorified God in me. THEN CHAPTER II. HEN fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. 3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come,' he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 5 To whom we gave place by sub- 14 But when I saw that they walked jection, no, not for an hour; that the not uprightly according to the truth truth of the gospel might continue of the gospel, I said unto Peter before with you. them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest 6 But of these who seemed to be after the manner of Gentiles, and somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it not as do the Jews, why compellest maketh no matter to me: God ac-thou the Gentiles to live as do the cepteth no man's person:) for they Jews? who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: come 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 2,9 A om. Cephas II SVA But when Cephas was come 12 SV but when he was 13 S And all the other Jews 14 SVA unto Cephas 4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we 5 He therefore that ministereth to have believed in Jesus Christ, that you the Spirit, and worketh miracles we might be justified by the faith of among you, doeth he it by the works Christ, and not by the works of the of the law, or by the hearing of law: for by the works of the law shall faith? no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. II But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive 16 SV but knowing; VA faith of Christ Jesus, even; SA believed in Christ Jesus 20 AI live by the faith; V by the faith of God and Christ, who 3, SVA om. that you should not obey the truth; SVA om. among you 5 A received ye the Spirit by the works of the law 12 SVA but, He who doeth them |