king james study



GA-1:1  Paul, an apostle, (not of men,

neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and

God the Father, who raised him from the

dead;)

GA-1:2  And all the brethren which are

with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

GA-1:3  Grace [be] to you and peace from

God the Father, and [from] our Lord

Jesus Christ,

GA-1:4  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:

GA-1:5  To whom [be] glory for ever and

ever. Amen.

GA-1:6  I marvel that ye are so soon

removed from him that called you into

the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

GA-1:7  Which is not another; but there

be some that trouble you, and would

pervert the gospel of Christ.

GA-1:8  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.

GA-1:9  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.

GA-1:10  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

servant of Christ.

GA-1:11  But I certify you, brethren,

that the gospel which was preached of me

is not after man.

GA-1:12  For I neither received it of

man, neither was I taught [it], but by

the revelation of Jesus Christ.

GA-1:13  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:

GA-1:14  And profited in the Jews'

religion above many my equals in mine

own nation, being more exceedingly

zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

GA-1:15  But when it pleased God, who

separated me from my mother's womb, and

called [me] by his grace,

GA-1:16  To reveal his Son in me, that I

might preach him among the heathen;

immediately I conferred not with flesh

and blood:

GA-1:17  Neither went I up to Jerusalem

to them which were apostles before me;

but I went into Arabia, and returned

again unto Damascus.

GA-1:18  Then after three years I went

up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode

with him fifteen days.

GA-1:19  But other of the apostles saw I

none, save James the Lord's brother.

GA-1:20  Now the things which I write

unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

GA-1:21  Afterwards I came into the

regions of Syria and Cilicia;

GA-1:22  And was unknown by face unto

the churches of Judaea which were in

Christ:

GA-1:23  But they had heard only, That

he which persecuted us in times past now

preacheth the faith which once he

destroyed.

GA-1:24  And they glorified God in me.

GA-2:1  Then fourteen years after I went

up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and

took Titus with [me] also.

GA-2:2  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.

GA-2:3  But neither Titus, who was with

me, being a Greek, was compelled to be

circumcised:

GA-2:4  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:

GA-2:5  To whom we gave place by

subjection, no, not for an hour; that

the truth of the gospel might continue

with you.

GA-2:6  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:

GA-2:7  But contrariwise, when they saw

that the gospel of the uncircumcision

was committed unto me, as [the gospel]

of the circumcision [was] unto Peter;

GA-2:8  (For he that wrought effectually

in Peter to the apostleship of the

circumcision, the same was mighty in me

toward the Gentiles:)

GA-2:9  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.

GA-2:10  Only [they would] that we

should remember the poor; the same which

I also was forward to do.

GA-2:11  But when Peter was come to

Antioch, I withstood him to the face,

because he was to be blamed.

GA-2:12  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.

GA-2:13  And the other Jews dissembled

likewise with him; insomuch that

Barnabas also was carried away with

their dissimulation.

GA-2:14  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 the Jews?

GA-2:15  We [who are] Jews by nature,

and not sinners of the Gentiles,

GA-2:16  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.

GA-2:17  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.

GA-2:18  For if I build again the things

which I destroyed, I make myself a

transgressor.

GA-2:19  For I through the law am dead

to the law, that I might live unto God.

GA-2:20  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.

GA-2:21  I do not frustrate the grace of

God: for if righteousness [come] by the

law, then Christ is dead in vain.

GA-3:1  O foolish Galatians, who hath

bewitched you, that ye should not obey

the truth, before whose eyes Jesus

Christ hath been evidently set forth,

crucified among you?

GA-3:2  This only would I learn of you,

Received ye the Spirit by the works of

the law, or by the hearing of faith?

GA-3:3  Are ye so foolish? having begun

in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect

by the flesh?

GA-3:4  Have ye suffered so many things

in vain? if [it be] yet in vain.

GA-3:5  He therefore that ministereth to

you the Spirit, and worketh miracles

among you, [doeth he it] by the works of

the law, or by the hearing of faith?

GA-3:6  Even as Abraham believed God,

and it was accounted to him for

righteousness.

GA-3:7  Know ye therefore that they

which are of faith, the same are the

children of Abraham.

GA-3:8  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.

GA-3:9  So then they which be of faith

are blessed with faithful Abraham.

GA-3:10  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.

GA-3:11  But that no man is justified by

the law in the sight of God, [it is]

evident: for, The just shall live by

faith.

GA-3:12  And the law is not of faith:

but, The man that doeth them shall live

in them.

GA-3:13  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:

GA-3:14  That the blessing of Abraham

might come on the Gentiles through Jesus

Christ; that we might receive the

promise of the Spirit through faith.

GA-3:15  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.

GA-3:16  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 Christ.

GA-3:17  And this I say, [that] the

covenant, that was confirmed before of

God in Christ, the law, which was four

hundred and thirty years after, cannot

disannul, that it should make the

promise of none effect.

GA-3:18  For if the inheritance [be] of

the law, [it is] no more of promise: but

God gave [it] to Abraham by promise.

GA-3:19  Wherefore then [serveth] the

law? It was added because of

transgressions, till the seed should

come to whom the promise was made; [and

it was] ordained by angels in the hand

of a mediator.

GA-3:20  Now a mediator is not [a

mediator] of one, but God is one.

GA-3:21  [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 righteousness

should have been by the law.

GA-3:22  But the scripture hath

concluded all under sin, that the

promise by faith of Jesus Christ might

be given to them that believe.

GA-3:23  But before faith came, we were

kept under the law, shut up unto the

faith which should afterwards be

revealed.

GA-3:24  Wherefore the law was our

schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ,

that we might be justified by faith.

GA-3:25  But after that faith is come,

we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

GA-3:26  For ye are all the children of

God by faith in Christ Jesus.

GA-3:27  For as many of you as have been

baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

GA-3:28  There is neither Jew nor Greek,

there is neither bond nor free, there is

neither male nor female: for ye are all

one in Christ Jesus.

GA-3:29  And if ye [be] Christ's, then

are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs

according to the promise.

GA-4:1  Now I say, [That] the heir, as

long as he is a child, differeth nothing

from a servant, though he be lord of

all;

GA-4:2  But is under tutors and

governors until the time appointed of

the father.

GA-4:3  Even so we, when we were

children, were in bondage under the

elements of the world:

GA-4:4  But when the fulness of the time

was come, God sent forth his Son, made

of a woman, made under the law,

GA-4:5  To redeem them that were under

the law, that we might receive the

adoption of sons.

GA-4:6  And because ye are sons, God

hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son

into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

GA-4:7  Wherefore thou art no more a

servant, but a son; and if a son, then

an heir of God through Christ.

GA-4:8  Howbeit then, when ye knew not

God, ye did service unto them which by

nature are no gods.

GA-4:9  But now, after that ye have

known God, or rather are known of God,

how turn ye again to the weak and

beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire

again to be in bondage?

GA-4:10  Ye observe days, and months,

and times, and years.

GA-4:11  I am afraid of you, lest I have

bestowed upon you labour in vain.

GA-4:12  Brethren, I beseech you, be as

I [am]; for I [am] as ye [are]: ye have

not injured me at all.

GA-4:13  Ye know how through infirmity

of the flesh I preached the gospel unto

you at the first.

GA-4:14  And my temptation which was in

my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected;

but received me as an angel of God,

[even] as Christ Jesus.

GA-4:15  Where is then the blessedness

ye spake of? for I bear you record,

that, if [it had been] possible, ye

would have plucked out your own eyes,

and have given them to me.

GA-4:16  Am I therefore become your

enemy, because I tell you the truth?

GA-4:17  They zealously affect you,

[but] not well; yea, they would exclude

you, that ye might affect them.

GA-4:18  But [it is] good to be

zealously affected always in [a] good

[thing], and not only when I am present

with you.

GA-4:19  My little children, of whom I

travail in birth again until Christ be

formed in you,

GA-4:20  I desire to be present with you

now, and to change my voice; for I stand

in doubt of you.

GA-4:21  Tell me, ye that desire to be

under the law, do ye not hear the law?

GA-4:22  For it is written, that Abraham

had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the

other by a freewoman.

GA-4:23  But he [who was] of the

bondwoman was born after the flesh; but

he of the freewoman [was] by promise.

GA-4:24  Which things are an allegory:

for these are the two covenants; the one

from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to

bondage, which is Agar.

GA-4:25  For this Agar is mount Sinai in

Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which

now is, and is in bondage with her

children.

GA-4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is

free, which is the mother of us all.

GA-4:27  For it is written, Rejoice,

[thou] barren that bearest not; break

forth and cry, thou that travailest not:

for the desolate hath many more children

than she which hath an husband.

GA-4:28  Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,

are the children of promise.

GA-4:29  But as then he that was born

after the flesh persecuted him [that was

born] after the Spirit, even so [it is]

now.

GA-4:30  Nevertheless what saith the

scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and

her son: for the son of the bondwoman

shall not be heir with the son of the

freewoman.

GA-4:31  So then, brethren, we are not

children of the bondwoman, but of the

free.

GA-5:1  Stand fast therefore in the

liberty wherewith Christ hath made us

free, and be not entangled again with

the yoke of bondage.

GA-5:2  Behold, I Paul say unto you,

that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall

profit you nothing.

GA-5:3  For I testify again to every man

that is circumcised, that he is a debtor

to do the whole law.

GA-5:4  Christ is become of no effect

unto you, whosoever of you are justified

by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

GA-5:5  For we through the Spirit wait

for the hope of righteousness by faith.

GA-5:6  For in Jesus Christ neither

circumcision availeth any thing, nor

uncircumcision; but faith which worketh

by love.

GA-5:7  Ye did run well; who did hinder

you that ye should not obey the truth?

GA-5:8  This persuasion [cometh] not of

him that calleth you.

GA-5:9  A little leaven leaveneth the

whole lump.

GA-5:10  I have confidence in you

through the Lord, that ye will be none

otherwise minded: but he that troubleth

you shall bear his judgment, whosoever

he be.

GA-5:11  And I, brethren, if I yet

preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer

persecution? then is the offence of the

cross ceased.

GA-5:12  I would they were even cut off

which trouble you.

GA-5:13  For, brethren, ye have been

called unto liberty; only [use] not

liberty for an occasion to the flesh,

but by love serve one another.

GA-5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in

one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt

love thy neighbour as thyself.

GA-5:15  But if ye bite and devour one

another, take heed that ye be not

consumed one of another.

GA-5:16  [This] I say then, Walk in the

Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust

of the flesh.

GA-5:17  For the flesh lusteth against

the Spirit, and the Spirit against the

flesh: and these are contrary the one to

the other: so that ye cannot do the

things that ye would.

GA-5:18  But if ye be led of the Spirit,

ye are not under the law.

GA-5:19  Now the works of the flesh are

manifest, which are [these]; Adultery,

fornication, uncleanness,

lasciviousness,

GA-5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,

variance, emulations, wrath, strife,

seditions, heresies,

GA-5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness,

revellings, and such like: of the which

I tell you before, as I have also told

[you] in time past, that they which do

such things shall not inherit the

kingdom of God.

GA-5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is

love, joy, peace, longsuffering,

gentleness, goodness, faith,

GA-5:23  Meekness, temperance: against

such there is no law.

GA-5:24  And they that are Christ's have

crucified the flesh with the affections

and lusts.

GA-5:25  If we live in the Spirit, let

us also walk in the Spirit.

GA-5:26  Let us not be desirous of vain

glory, provoking one another, envying

one another.

GA-6:1  Brethren, if a man be overtaken

in a fault, ye which are spiritual,

restore such an one in the spirit of

meekness; considering thyself, lest thou

also be tempted.

GA-6:2  Bear ye one another's burdens,

and so fulfil the law of Christ.

GA-6:3  For if a man think himself to be

something, when he is nothing, he

deceiveth himself.

GA-6:4  But let every man prove his own

work, and then shall he have rejoicing

in himself alone, and not in another.

GA-6:5  For every man shall bear his own

burden.

GA-6:6  Let him that is taught in the

word communicate unto him that teacheth

in all good things.

GA-6:7  Be not deceived; God is not

mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,

that shall he also reap.

GA-6:8  For he that soweth to his flesh

shall of the flesh reap corruption; but

he that soweth to the Spirit shall of

the Spirit reap life everlasting.

GA-6:9  And let us not be weary in well

doing: for in due season we shall reap,

if we faint not.

GA-6:10  As we have therefore

opportunity, let us do good unto all

[men], especially unto them who are of

the household of faith.

GA-6:11  Ye see how large a letter I

have written unto you with mine own

hand.

GA-6:12  As many as desire to make a

fair show in the flesh, they constrain

you to be circumcised; only lest they

should suffer persecution for the cross

of Christ.

GA-6:13  For neither they themselves who

are circumcised keep the law; but desire

to have you circumcised, that they may

glory in your flesh.

GA-6:14  But God forbid that I should

glory, save in the cross of our Lord

Jesus Christ, by whom the world is

crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

GA-6:15  For in Christ Jesus neither

circumcision availeth any thing, nor

uncircumcision, but a new creature.

GA-6:16  And as many as walk according

to this rule, peace [be] on them, and

mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

GA-6:17  From henceforth let no man

trouble me: for I bear in my body the

marks of the Lord Jesus.

GA-6:18  Brethren, the grace of our Lord

Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit.

Amen.



 

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