Galatians

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.

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.

Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

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

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?

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

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

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

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

And if ye be Christ"s, then are ye Abraham"s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

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.

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

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

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

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.

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

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.

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

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.

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.

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.