though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 16 But be it so, I did not bur- 3 Since ye seek a proof of den you: nevertheless, being Anointed (Jesus) speaking in crafty, I caught you with guile.me, which to you-ward is not 17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? weak, but is mighty in you. 4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he For we also are weak in him, liveth by the power of God. the power of God toward you. but we shall live with him by 5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Anointed Jesus is in you, except ye be rejected? 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Anointed (Jesus): but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edify-know that we are not rejected. ing. 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. CHAPTER XIII. HIS is the third time I am Toming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. 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 6 But I trust that ye shall 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as rejected. 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. 10 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. 11 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 a holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 14 The grace of the Lord, Anointed Jesus, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE GALATIANS. CHAPTER I. PAUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Anointed Jesus, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 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 Anointed Jesus, 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: 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Anointed (Jesus) unto another gospel: but 7 Which is not another; there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Anointed (Jesus). 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? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the bondman of Anointed (Jesus). 11 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 Anointed Jesus. 13 For ye have heard of my conduct in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: 14 And profited in the Jews' in mine own nation, being more religion above many my equals exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when it pleased God, mother's womb, and called me who separated me from my 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. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. 21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; 22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Anointed Jesus: 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. CHAPTER II. Twent up again to Jerusalem HEN fourteen years after I 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: 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Anointed Jesus, that they might bring us unto bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. 6 But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person: for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: 7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; 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. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do | you, Received ye the Spirit by the Jews? the works of the law, or by the 15 We who are Jews by na-hearing of faith? ture, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Anointed Jesus, even we have believed in Anointed Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith of Anointed (Jesus), and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Anointed (Jesus), we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Anointed (Jesus) the servant 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 Anointed (Jesus): nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Anointed (Jesus) 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 holiness, justice and goodness come by the law, then Anointed (Jesus) is dead in vain. CHAPTER III. FOOLISH hath bewitchalians, what ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Anointed Jesus hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5 He therefore that supplies to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for holiness, justice and goodness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, forseeing 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. 11 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 doet thith shall live in them. 13 Anointed Jesus hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Anointed Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Anointed (Jesus). 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Anointed (Jesus), the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. 18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. 19 Wherefore then serveth the promise by faith of Anointed Jesus might be given to them that believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Anointed (Jesus), that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Anointed Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been immersed into Anointed (Jesus) have put on Anointed (Jesus). 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Anointed Jesus. 29 And if ye be Anointed (Jesus'), then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. CHAPTER IV. OW I say, That the heir, law? It was added because of Nos long as he is a child, transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily holiness, justice and goodness should have been by the law. differeth nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage un|der the elements of the world: 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were 22 But the Scripture hath con-under the law, that we might cluded all under sin, that the receive the adoption of sons. |