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The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
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Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
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How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3
For to
their
power, I bear record, yea, and beyond
their
power
they were
willing of themselves;
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Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and
take upon us
the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
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And
this they did,
not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
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Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
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Therefore, as ye abound in every
thing, in
faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and
in
all diligence, and
in
your love to us,
see
that ye abound in this grace also.
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I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
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For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
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And herein I give
my
advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
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Now therefore perform the doing
of it;
that as
there was
a readiness to will, so
there may be
a performance also out of that which ye have.
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For if there be first a willing mind,
it is
accepted according to that a man hath,
and
not according to that he hath not.
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For
I mean
not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
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But by an equality,
that
now at this time your abundance
may be a supply
for their want, that their abundance also may be
a supply
for your want: that there may be equality:
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As it is written, He that
had gathered
much had nothing over; and he that
had gathered
little had no lack.
16
But thanks
be
to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
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For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
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And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
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And not
that
only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and
declaration of
your ready mind:
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Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
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Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
22
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which
I have
in you.
23
Whether
any do enquire
of Titus,
he is
my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren
be enquired of, they are
the messengers of the churches,
and
the glory of Christ.
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Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
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For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
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For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
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Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
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Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as
a matter of
bounty, and not as
of
covetousness.
6
But this
I say,
He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
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Every man according as he purposeth in his heart,
so let him give;
not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
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And God
is
able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all
things,
may abound to every good work:
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(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
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Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for
your
food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
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Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
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For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
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Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for
your
liberal distribution unto them, and unto all
men;
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And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
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Thanks
be
unto God for his unspeakable gift.
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Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence
am
base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
2
But I beseech
you,
that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
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For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
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(For the weapons of our warfare
are
not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
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Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
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And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
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Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he
is
Christ’s, even so
are
we Christ’s.
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For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
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That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
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For
his
letters, say they,
are
weighty and powerful; but
his
bodily presence
is
weak, and
his
speech contemptible.
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Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such
will we be
also in deed when we are present.
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For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
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But we will not boast of things without
our
measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
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For we stretch not ourselves beyond
our measure,
as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in
preaching
the gospel of Christ:
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Not boasting of things without
our
measure,
that is,
of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
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To preach the gospel in the
regions
beyond you,
and
not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
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But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
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Would to God ye could bear with me a little in
my
folly: and indeed bear with me.
2
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present
you as
a chaste virgin to Christ.
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But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
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For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or
if
ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with
him.
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For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
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But though
I be
rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
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Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
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I robbed other churches, taking wages
of them,
to do you service.
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And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all
things
I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep
myself.
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As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
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But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13
For such
are
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
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And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
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Therefore
it is
no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
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I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17
That which I speak, I speak
it
not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
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Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
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For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye
yourselves
are wise.
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For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour
you,
if a man take
of you,
if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
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I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22
Are they Hebrews? so
am
I. Are they Israelites? so
am
I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so
am
I.
23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I
am
more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24
Of the Jews five times received I forty
stripes
save one.
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Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
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In
journeyings often,
in
perils of waters,
in
perils of robbers,
in
perils by
mine own
countrymen,
in
perils by the heathen,
in
perils in the city,
in
perils in the wilderness,
in
perils in the sea,
in
perils among false brethren;
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In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
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Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
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If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
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The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
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And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
12
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
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And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
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How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
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Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
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For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but
now
I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me
to be,
or
that
he heareth of me.
7
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
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For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
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And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
12
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
13
For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except
it be
that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
14
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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.
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And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
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Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
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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?
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Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but
we do
all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
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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:
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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.
13
This
is
the third
time
I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
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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:
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Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
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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.
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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?
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But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
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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 reprobates.
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For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
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For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish,
even
your perfection.
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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.
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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 Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians
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Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
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And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
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Grace
be
to you and peace from God the Father, and
from
our Lord Jesus Christ,
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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:
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To whom
be
glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
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Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
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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.
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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.
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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 servant of Christ.
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But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
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For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught
it,
but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
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And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
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But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called
me
by his grace,
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To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
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Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
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But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.
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Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
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Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
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And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
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But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
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And they glorified God in me.
2
Then 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:
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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:
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To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
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But of these 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:
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But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as
the gospel
of the circumcision
was
unto Peter;
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(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
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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.
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Only
they would
that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
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But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
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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.
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And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
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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 the Jews?
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We
who are
Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
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Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
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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.
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For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
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For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
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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.
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I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness
come
by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
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