The Apostle asserts his Claims. nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

17 Did I make a gain of you by any of1 or, with. them whom I sent unto you?

a c.7.2. 18 I desired Titus, a and with him Ib 1Co.11.28. sent a brother: c Did Titus make a gain 1Jno.3.20,21. of you? walked we not in the same spi- c c.8.6. rit? walked we not in the same steps? d Ro.8.10. 19 Again, think ye that we excuse our Ga.4.19. selves funto you? we speak before God e 1Co.9.27. in Christ: but we do all things, dearly 2Ti.3.8. beloved, for your edifying. If c.5.12.

20 For I fear lest, when g I come, I shall g 1Co.4.21. not find you such as I would, and that I c.13.2.10. shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, h Pr.21.30. wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

c.2.1. k 1Th.3.10. 21 And lest, when I come again, my God He.6.1. will humble i me among you, and that I Re.2.21. shall bewail many which have sinned m 1Co 5.1. already, and have not repented of n Tit.1.13. the uncleanness, and fornication, m and o c.10.8. lasciviousness which they have com-p De.19.15. mitted. CHAP. XIII.

He.10.28,29. q ver.9.

Ro.12.16.

15.5.

Ep.4.3. Ph.2.2. 1Pe.3.8.

THIS is the third time I am coming to you. In p the mouthof two or threewitnesses shall every word be established. 2I told you before, and foretel you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them t which s Ro.16.16. heretofore have sinned, and to all other, t c.12.21. that, if I come again, I will not spare: u Ro.16.24. 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speak-v Ph.2.1. ing in me, which to you-ward is not w 1Co.9.2. weak, but is mighty win you. a Ph.2.7,8. 4 For though he was crucified through 1Pe.3.18. 134

The Apostolic Benediction weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak 1 in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

5 Examine b yourselves whether ye be in the faith; prove your ownselves. Know ye not your ownselves, how that Jesus Christ dis in you, except ye be reprobates ?e

6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

7 Now I pray to God that ye do ro evil; not that we should appear approv ed, but that ye should do that which s honest, though we be as reprobates.

8 For h 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. k

10 Therefore I write these things be ing absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, n according oto the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, q be of good comfort, be r of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

12 Greet's one another with an holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you.

14 The u grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the v commu nion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, acity of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.

by man, but b by Jesus Christ,and Godja Ac.9.13,26. he Father, who craised him from the dead ;)

Ti.1.13-16. b Ac.9.6,15.

f Ro.1.7,&c. 4 Who gave h himself for our sins, that g Ac. 15.2,&c. he might deliver us i from this present hJno.10.17,18 evil k world, according I to the will of Tit.2.14. God and our Fatner: i Jno.17.14. k 1Jno.2.16. 1 Ro.8.27.

5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed nor, severally. from him that called you into the grace m Ph.2.16. of Christ unto another gospel: n c.5.4,7,8. 7 Which o is not another; but there be o 2Co.11.4. some that trouble you, and would per-p Ac. 15.1,24. vert q the gospel of Christ. q Ac.15.1,24. 2Co.2.17. c.5.10,12. r c.5.1,13. $ 2Co.11.20. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, c.4.3,9. If any man preach any other u gospel t 1Co.16.22. unto you than that ye have received, let u De.4.2. him be accursed. Re.22.18. v c.6.3. w Ac.10.34. Ro.2.11. x 2Co.12.19. 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the 1Th.2.4. gospel which was preached of me, is not y Ja.4.4. after man. z 1Th.2.4. 12 For a I neither received it of man, 1Ti.2.7. neither was I taught it, but by the reve-a 1Co.15.1-3. lation b of Jesus Christ. b Ep.3.3.

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let t him be accursed."

10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to x please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should noty be the servant of Christ.

13 For ye have heard of my conversa-c Mat.16.18. tion in time past in the Jews' religion, Ep.2.20. now that beyond measure I persecuted d Ac.8.1,3. the church d of God, and wasted it; 14 And profi'ed in the Jews' religion above many my 2 equals in mine own nation, being ƒ more exceedingly zealous of the traditions g of my fathers. 15 But when it pleased God, h who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

16 To reveall his Son in me, thatm I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and n blood:

9.1,2. 26.9. eRo.1.5.12.3,6 2 equal in years. fAc.22.3. Ph.3.6. g Mar.7.5-13. h Is.49.1. Je.1.5. Ac. 13.2. 22.14,15. Ro.1.1. i Ac.11.30. Ro. 15.25.

17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned k Ac. 15.35. again unto Damascus. 1 2Co.4.6.

18 Then p after three years I went 3 up m Ac.9.15. to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode n 2Co.5.16. with him fifteen days. o Ac.11.3.

19 But other of the apostles saw I none, p Ac.9.26. save James q the Lord's brother.

3 or,returned. 20 Now the things which I write unto q Mar.6.3. you, behold, before God, I lie not. 21 Afterwards I t came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

rver.5.

1Ti.5.20.

t Ac.9.30.

22 And was unknown by face unto the u 1Th.2.14. churches us of Judea which were in Christ: v Ep.2.3,12.

24 And they glorified d God in me. CHAP. II.

THEN, fourteen years after, g I wen up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospe which I preach among the Gentiles; Lut privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I m 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 p brethren unawares brought in, who came in pri vily to spy out our libertyr which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: s

5 To whom we gave place by subjec tion, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

6 But of those who seemed v to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God w accept. eth 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, z as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

8 (For he that wrough: 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, c perceived the grace e 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 Ii also was forward to do.

11 But when Peter was come to k An. tioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat o 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 r of the gospel, I said unto Peters 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 the Jews?

15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners v of the Gentiles,

Justification by Faith.

16 Knowing thatca man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith d of Jesus Christ, even we have be-b Ge.12.3,7. lieved in Jesus Christ, that we might be 17.7. justified by the faith of Christ, and not by c Ac.13.38,39. the works of the law: for e by the works Ro.3.20. of the law shall no flesh be justified. d Ro.5.1. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified c.3.11,24. by Christ, we g ourselves also are found e Ps.143.2. sinners, is therefore Christ the minister He.7.18,19. of sin? God forbid. f Ex.12.40,41 18 For if I build again the things which g 1Jno.3.9,10. I destroyed, I make myself a trans-h Ro.4.14. gressor. i Ro.5.20.

19 For Ik through the law am dead to k Ro.7.4,10. the law, that I might live m unto God. 8.2. 20 I am crucified n with Christ: never- ver.16. theless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth m Ro.6.11,14. in qme: and the life which I now live 2Co.5.15. in the flesh, I live by the faith of the n c.5.24.6.14. Son of God, who loved me, and gave o Ac.7.53. himself u for me.

He.2.2.

21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: pEx.20.19-22. for if v righteousness come by the law, De.5.22-31. then Christ is dead in vain. q 1Th.5.10. 1Pe.4.2.

CHAP. III.

OFOOLISH y Galatians, who zhathr De.6.4. bewitched you, that ye should not s Mat.5.17. obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus t c.2.21. Christ hath been evidently set forth, u Jno.10.11. crucified among you? Ep.5.2.

2 This only would I learn of you, Re-v He.7.11. ceived b ye the Spirit by the works of the wRo3.9,19,23 law, or cby the hearing of faith? x Ro.4.11,12,

3 Are ye so foolish? having d begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect e by the flesh?

4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain?g if it be yet in vain.

16.

y Mat.7.26. z c.5.7. a Col.2.17. He.9.9,10.

5 He therefore that ministereth i to you b Ep.1.13. the Spirit, and worketh miracles among c Ro.10.17. you, doeth he it by the works of the law, d c.4.9. or by the hearing of faith?

e He.9.10. ƒ Jno.1.12.

6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was 2 accounted to him for righteous- 1Jno.3.1,2.

ness.

or, great. 2Jno.8. h Ro.6.3.

i 2Co.3.8.

Ge. 12.3.
22.18.

Ac.3.25.

T c.4.28. 3 rudiments. Col,2.8,20.

$ De.27.26. t Hab.2.4. u Ro.8.15,17. Ro. 10.5,6. 13 Christ x hath redeemed us from the w Le.18.5. curse of the law, being made a curse for Eze.20.11. us: for it is written, y Cursed is every jr 2Co.5.21. one that hangeth on a tree:

c.4.5.

The heirship of Believers.

16 Now to Abraham band his seed wes the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

17 And this I say, That the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which ƒ was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. 18 For if h 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 law? ilt was added because of transgressions, till the seed I should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels o in the hand p of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God r is one.

21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for ift there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

22 But the Scripture hath concluded all wunder sin, that the promise zby faith of Jesus Christ 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 a was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a school-master.

26 For ye are all the children ƒ of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

27 For h as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. 28 There is k neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

29 And if ye be Christ's, then m are ya Abraham's seed, and heirs n according to the promise.

CHAP. IV.

NOW I say, That the heir, as long as

he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, 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 under the 3 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 under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spiritu of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

8 Howbeit then when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye 4 again to the weak and beggarly 5 elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bo

Fruits of the Flesh and Spirit.

Efficacy of Christ's Cross.

13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

14 But e God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified e unto me, and I unto the world.

15 For g in Christ Jesus neither cucum cision availeth any thing, nor uncircum cision, but a i new creature.

16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace m be on them, and mer. cy, and upon the Israel of God.

17 From henceforth let no man trouble me; for o I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

18 Brethren, the p grace of om Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Unto the Galatians, written from
Rome.