To Be Determined

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Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

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He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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Therefore 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.

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I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

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Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

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For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is 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 your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

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Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you?

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I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?

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Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

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For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

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that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

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This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

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I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

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seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

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For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

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Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?–unless indeed you are disqualified.

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But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.

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Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.

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For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

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For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

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For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

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Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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Greet one another with a holy kiss.

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All the saints greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

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All the saints greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

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Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

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and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

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Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

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who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father–

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to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

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and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

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But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

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As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

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For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

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But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

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For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

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For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

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I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

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to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

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But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord’s brother.

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Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

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Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

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I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

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but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”

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And they glorified God in me.

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Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

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I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

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But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

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This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

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to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

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But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man)–they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

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but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

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(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

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and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

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They only asked us to remember the poor–which very thing I was also zealous to do.

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But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

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For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

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And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

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But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

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“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

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yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

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But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

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For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

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I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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I don’t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

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Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

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I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

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Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

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Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

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He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

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Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

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Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

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The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

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So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

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For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

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Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

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The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

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that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

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Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “To your seed,” which is Christ.

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Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

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For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

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What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

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Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

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But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

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But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

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For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.