2 Corinthians 12:1-21
To boast -- there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will continue with visions and revelations of the Lord.
I know a man united with the Messiah who 14 years ago was snatched up to the 3rd heaven; whether this was in body or spirit I don’t know, God does!
And I know that such a man — whether in the body or spiritually I don’t know, God knows —
was snatched into paradise and heard things that cannot be put into words, things unlawful for a human being to utter.
Regarding such a man I will boast; but about myself I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses.
If I did want to boast, I would not be foolish; because I would be speaking the truth. But, because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, I refrain, so that no one will think more of me than what my words or deeds may warrant.
Therefore, to keep me from becoming overly proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from the Adversary to pound away at me, so that I wouldn’t grow conceited.
3 times I asked the Lord to take this thing away from me;
but He explained, “My grace is enough for you, for my power is brought to perfection in weakness.” Therefore, I am very happy to boast about my weaknesses, in order that the Messiah’s power will rest upon me.
Yes, I am well pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and difficulties endured on the Messiah's behalf; for it is when I am weak that I am strong.
I have behaved a fool, but you forced me to do it — you who should have been commending me. For I am in no way inferior to the “stellar apostles,” even if I'm nothing.
The things that prove I am an apostle — signs, wonders and miracles — were done in your presence, despite what I had to endure.
Is there any way in which you have been left out among the various congregations, other than in my not having been a burden to you? For such unfairness, please forgive me!
Look, I am ready this 3rd time to come and visit you; and I will not be a burden to you; for it is not what you own that I desire, but you! Children are not supposed to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
And as for me, I will most gladly spend everything I possess and waste away besides for your sakes. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
Let it be granted, then, that I was not a burden to you; but, crafty fellow that I am, I beguiled you with trickery!
Was it perhaps through someone I sent you
that I took advantage of you? I urged Titus to go and sent the brother with him; Titus didn’t take advantage of you, did he? Didn’t we live by the same Spirit and show you the same direction?
Perhaps you think that all this time we have been defending ourselves before you. No, we have been speaking in the sight of God, as those united with the Messiah should. And, my dear friends, it is all for your eduification.
For I am afraid of coming and finding you not as I desire you to be, and also of not being found the way you wish me to be. I am afraid of finding quarreling and jealousy, anger and rivalry, slander and gossip, arrogance and disorder.
I fear that when I come again, my God may humiliate me in your presence, and that I will be grieved over many of those who sinned in the past and have not repented of the impurity, fornication and debauchery that such have pursued.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago -- whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known -- such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;
3 and I have known such a man -- whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --
4 that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.
5 Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,
6 for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;
7 and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.
8 Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,
9 and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:
10 wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;
11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.
12 The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,
13 for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!
14 Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,
15 and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.
16 And be it [so], I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;
17 any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?
18 I entreated Titus, and did send with [him] the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? -- did we not in the same steps?
19 Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, [are] for your up-building,
20 for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,
21 lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.
Bible verse by verse
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2 Corinthians 13:1-14
This will be the 3rd time I visited you. Any charge must be established by the testimony of 2 or 3 witnesses.
To those who sinned the time past and to everyone else I say beforehand while away the same thing I said when I was with you the 2nd time: if I come again I will be brutal.
Since you seek for proof of the Messiah speaking in me. He is not languid in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.
For although He was executed on a tree in weakness, now He lives by God’s power. And we though weak united with Him, but in dealing with you we will live with Him by God’s power.
Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the life of trust. Test yourselves. Don’t you realize that Jesus the Messiah is a part of you? — unless you fail to pass the test.
But I hope you will realize that we are not failures.
And we pray to God that you will do nothing wrong. We are not concerned with appearing successful, but with your doing what is correct, even if we seem as failures.
For we cannot act against the truth, only for it.
So we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are strong; indeed, what we pray for is that you become perfect.
I write these things while apart from you, so that when I am with you I will not have to use my authority to deal brutally with you, for the Lord gave it to me to uplift and not for ripping up.
And now, brethren, peace! Straighten up, pay attention to my advice, be of one mind, live peacefully — and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Greet one another sweetly.
All God’s people send their regards to you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;
2 I have said before, and I say [it] before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,
3 since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,
4 for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.
5 Your ownselves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your ownselves prove ye; do ye not know your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?
6 and I hope that ye shall know that we -- we are not disapproved of;
7 and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;
8 for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;
9 for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!
10 because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat [any] sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.
11 Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;
12 salute one another in an holy kiss;
13 salute you do all the saints;
14 the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, [is] with you all! Amen.
This will be the 3rd time I visited you. Any charge must be established by the testimony of 2 or 3 witnesses.
To those who sinned the time past and to everyone else I say beforehand while away the same thing I said when I was with you the 2nd time: if I come again I will be brutal.
Since you seek for proof of the Messiah speaking in me. He is not languid in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.
For although He was executed on a tree in weakness, now He lives by God’s power. And we though weak united with Him, but in dealing with you we will live with Him by God’s power.
Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the life of trust. Test yourselves. Don’t you realize that Jesus the Messiah is a part of you? — unless you fail to pass the test.
But I hope you will realize that we are not failures.
And we pray to God that you will do nothing wrong. We are not concerned with appearing successful, but with your doing what is correct, even if we seem as failures.
For we cannot act against the truth, only for it.
So we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are strong; indeed, what we pray for is that you become perfect.
I write these things while apart from you, so that when I am with you I will not have to use my authority to deal brutally with you, for the Lord gave it to me to uplift and not for ripping up.
And now, brethren, peace! Straighten up, pay attention to my advice, be of one mind, live peacefully — and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Greet one another sweetly.
All God’s people send their regards to you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;
2 I have said before, and I say [it] before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,
3 since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,
4 for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.
5 Your ownselves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your ownselves prove ye; do ye not know your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?
6 and I hope that ye shall know that we -- we are not disapproved of;
7 and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;
8 for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;
9 for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!
10 because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat [any] sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.
11 Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;
12 salute one another in an holy kiss;
13 salute you do all the saints;
14 the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, [is] with you all! Amen.
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Re: Bible verse by verse
Galatians 1:1-24
From: Paul, an apostle — I received my commission not from human beings or through human mediation but through Jesus the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — also from all the brethren with me
To: The Messianic communities in Galatia:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus the Messiah,
who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us from the present evil world-system, in obedience to the will of God, our Father.
To Him be the glory eternally! Amen.
I am shocked that you are so quick to separate yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah’s grace, and turn to some other supposedly “Good Message,”
which isn't a good message at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good Message of the Messiah.
But even if we — or, for that matter, an angel from heaven! — were to announce to you some so-called “Good Message” contrary to the Good News we did announce to you, let him be under accursed forever!
We said it before, and I say it again: if anyone announces a “Good Message” contrary to what you already received, let him be under a curse forever!
Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God’s approval! Or that I’m trying to appease people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.
Additionally, let me make clear to you, brethren, that the Good Message as I proclaim it is not produced by a human;
because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it — it came directly as a revelation from Jesus the Messiah.
For you have heard about my former way of life in formal Judaism — how I did my best to persecute God’s Messianic Community and destroy it.
And how, since I was more of a zealot for the traditions handed down by my forefathers than most Jews my age, I advanced in Jewish "traditionalism" more rapidly than they.
However, when God, who picked me out before I was born and called me by his grace, chose
to reveal His Son to me, so that I might announce Him to the Gentiles, I did not consult anyone;
and I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles ahead of me. Instead, I immediately went off to Arabia and afterwards returned to Damascus.
Not until 3 years later did I visit Jerusalem to make Peter's acquaintance, and I stayed with him for two weeks,
but I did not see any of the other apostles except the Lord’s brother James.
Regarding these matters I am writing you about, I declare before God that I am not lying!
Next I went to Syria and Cilicia;
but in Judea, the Messianic congregations didn’t even know what I looked like —
they were only hearing the report, “The one who used to persecute us now preaches the Good Message of the faith he was formerly out to destroy”;
and they praised God for me.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --
2 and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
3 Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
5 to whom [is] the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.
6 I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;
7 that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;
8 but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!
9 as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!
10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.
11 And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,
12 for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught [it], but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,
13 for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,
14 and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,
15 and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called [me] through His grace --
16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,
18 then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,
19 and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.
20 And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;
21 then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,
22 and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that [are] in Christ,
23 and only they were hearing, that `he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news -- the faith that then he was wasting;'
24 and they were glorifying God in me.
From: Paul, an apostle — I received my commission not from human beings or through human mediation but through Jesus the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — also from all the brethren with me
To: The Messianic communities in Galatia:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus the Messiah,
who gave Himself for our sins, so that He might deliver us from the present evil world-system, in obedience to the will of God, our Father.
To Him be the glory eternally! Amen.
I am shocked that you are so quick to separate yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah’s grace, and turn to some other supposedly “Good Message,”
which isn't a good message at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good Message of the Messiah.
But even if we — or, for that matter, an angel from heaven! — were to announce to you some so-called “Good Message” contrary to the Good News we did announce to you, let him be under accursed forever!
We said it before, and I say it again: if anyone announces a “Good Message” contrary to what you already received, let him be under a curse forever!
Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God’s approval! Or that I’m trying to appease people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.
Additionally, let me make clear to you, brethren, that the Good Message as I proclaim it is not produced by a human;
because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it — it came directly as a revelation from Jesus the Messiah.
For you have heard about my former way of life in formal Judaism — how I did my best to persecute God’s Messianic Community and destroy it.
And how, since I was more of a zealot for the traditions handed down by my forefathers than most Jews my age, I advanced in Jewish "traditionalism" more rapidly than they.
However, when God, who picked me out before I was born and called me by his grace, chose
to reveal His Son to me, so that I might announce Him to the Gentiles, I did not consult anyone;
and I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles ahead of me. Instead, I immediately went off to Arabia and afterwards returned to Damascus.
Not until 3 years later did I visit Jerusalem to make Peter's acquaintance, and I stayed with him for two weeks,
but I did not see any of the other apostles except the Lord’s brother James.
Regarding these matters I am writing you about, I declare before God that I am not lying!
Next I went to Syria and Cilicia;
but in Judea, the Messianic congregations didn’t even know what I looked like —
they were only hearing the report, “The one who used to persecute us now preaches the Good Message of the faith he was formerly out to destroy”;
and they praised God for me.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --
2 and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
3 Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
5 to whom [is] the glory to the ages of the ages. Amen.
6 I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;
7 that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;
8 but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!
9 as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!
10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.
11 And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,
12 for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught [it], but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,
13 for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,
14 and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,
15 and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called [me] through His grace --
16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,
18 then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,
19 and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.
20 And the things that I write to you, lo, before God -- I lie not;
21 then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia,
22 and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that [are] in Christ,
23 and only they were hearing, that `he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news -- the faith that then he was wasting;'
24 and they were glorifying God in me.
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Re: Bible verse by verse
The letter to the Galatians was written by the Apostle Paul about 49 A.D. prior to the Jerusalem Council which had taken place 50 A.D.
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Galatians 2:1-21
After 14 years I again visited Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas; and I took Titus along.
I went in obedience to a revelation, and I explained to them the Good Message I proclaimed among the Gentiles — but privately, to the acknowledged leaders. I did this out of concern that my current or previous work might have been in vain.
But they didn’t force my Gentile companion Titus to undergo circumcision.
Indeed, the question came up only because some men who pretended to be brethren had infiltrated — they came in like sneaks to spy out the freedom we have in the Messiah Jesus, so that they might enslave us.
Not even for a moment did we give in to them, so that the truth of the Good Message might be preserved for you.
Additionally, those who were the acknowledged leaders (not that it mattered to me, as God does not judge by outward appearances) added no value to me.
Quite the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good Message for the Uncircumcised, just as Peter had been toward the Circumcised;
since that One who worked in Peter to make him an apostle to the Circumcised had worked in me to make me an apostle to the Gentiles.
So, having perceived what grace had been given to me, James, Cephas, and John the acknowledged supports of the community, extended to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the Circumcised.
Their only request was that we should consider the poor. That very thing I have spared no pains to do.
Furthermore, when Peter arrived at Antioch, I opposed him publicly, because he was clearly in error.
For prior to the arrival of certain people from [the community headed by] James, he had been eating with the Gentile believers; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he was afraid of the faction who favored circumcising Gentile believers.
And the other Jewish believers became hypocrites along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, keeping in line with the truth of the Good Message, I said to Peter, right in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a non Jew and not like a Jew, why are you forcing the non Jews to live like Jews?
We are Jews by birth, not so-called ‘non Jewish sinners’.
Yet, we have come to realize that a person is not declared righteous by God on the ground of his legalistic observance of the Laws commandments, but through Messiah Jesus trusting faithfulness. Therefore, we too have put our trust in Messiah Jesus and become faithful to Him, in order that we might be declared righteous on the ground of the Messiah’s trusting faithfulness and not on the ground of our legalistic observance of the Laws commands. For on the ground of legalistic observance of Law commands, no one will be declared righteous.
But if, in seeking to be declared righteous by God through our union with the Messiah, we ourselves are indeed found to be sinners, then is the Messiah an aider and abettor of sin? Heaven forbid! 18 Indeed, if I build up again the legalistic bondage which I destroyed, I really do make myself a transgressor.
For it was through letting the Law speak for itself that I died to its traditional legalistic misinterpretation, so that I might live in a direct relationship with God.
When the Messiah was executed on the tree as a criminal, I was too; so that my proud ego no longer survives. But the Messiah lives within me, and the life I now live in my body I live by the same trusting faithfulness that the Son of God had, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
I do not reject God’s gracious gift; for if the way in which one attains righteousness is through legalism, then the Messiah’s death was pointless.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;
2 and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;
3 but not even Titus, who [is] with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --
4 and [that] because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,
5 to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.
6 And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,
7 but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with [that] of the circumcision,
8 for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,
9 and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision [may go],
10 only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.
11 And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,
12 for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,
13 and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
15 we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,
16 having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'
17 And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, [is] then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!
18 for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;
19 for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;
20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
21 I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness [be] through law -- then Christ died in vain.
After 14 years I again visited Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas; and I took Titus along.
I went in obedience to a revelation, and I explained to them the Good Message I proclaimed among the Gentiles — but privately, to the acknowledged leaders. I did this out of concern that my current or previous work might have been in vain.
But they didn’t force my Gentile companion Titus to undergo circumcision.
Indeed, the question came up only because some men who pretended to be brethren had infiltrated — they came in like sneaks to spy out the freedom we have in the Messiah Jesus, so that they might enslave us.
Not even for a moment did we give in to them, so that the truth of the Good Message might be preserved for you.
Additionally, those who were the acknowledged leaders (not that it mattered to me, as God does not judge by outward appearances) added no value to me.
Quite the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good Message for the Uncircumcised, just as Peter had been toward the Circumcised;
since that One who worked in Peter to make him an apostle to the Circumcised had worked in me to make me an apostle to the Gentiles.
So, having perceived what grace had been given to me, James, Cephas, and John the acknowledged supports of the community, extended to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the Circumcised.
Their only request was that we should consider the poor. That very thing I have spared no pains to do.
Furthermore, when Peter arrived at Antioch, I opposed him publicly, because he was clearly in error.
For prior to the arrival of certain people from [the community headed by] James, he had been eating with the Gentile believers; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he was afraid of the faction who favored circumcising Gentile believers.
And the other Jewish believers became hypocrites along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, keeping in line with the truth of the Good Message, I said to Peter, right in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a non Jew and not like a Jew, why are you forcing the non Jews to live like Jews?
We are Jews by birth, not so-called ‘non Jewish sinners’.
Yet, we have come to realize that a person is not declared righteous by God on the ground of his legalistic observance of the Laws commandments, but through Messiah Jesus trusting faithfulness. Therefore, we too have put our trust in Messiah Jesus and become faithful to Him, in order that we might be declared righteous on the ground of the Messiah’s trusting faithfulness and not on the ground of our legalistic observance of the Laws commands. For on the ground of legalistic observance of Law commands, no one will be declared righteous.
But if, in seeking to be declared righteous by God through our union with the Messiah, we ourselves are indeed found to be sinners, then is the Messiah an aider and abettor of sin? Heaven forbid! 18 Indeed, if I build up again the legalistic bondage which I destroyed, I really do make myself a transgressor.
For it was through letting the Law speak for itself that I died to its traditional legalistic misinterpretation, so that I might live in a direct relationship with God.
When the Messiah was executed on the tree as a criminal, I was too; so that my proud ego no longer survives. But the Messiah lives within me, and the life I now live in my body I live by the same trusting faithfulness that the Son of God had, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
I do not reject God’s gracious gift; for if the way in which one attains righteousness is through legalism, then the Messiah’s death was pointless.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus;
2 and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;
3 but not even Titus, who [is] with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --
4 and [that] because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,
5 to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.
6 And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,
7 but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with [that] of the circumcision,
8 for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,
9 and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision [may go],
10 only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.
11 And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,
12 for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,
13 and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
15 we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,
16 having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'
17 And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, [is] then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!
18 for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;
19 for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;
20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
21 I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness [be] through law -- then Christ died in vain.
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Re: Bible verse by verse
Galatians 3:1-29
Such stupidity Galatians! Who has cast you under a spell? Before your very eyes Jesus the Messiah was clearly portrayed as having died as a criminal.
I want to know from you just this one thing: did you receive the Spirit by legalistic observance of Law or by trusting in what you heard and being faithful to it?
Are you that ignorant? Having started off with the Spirit’s power, do you think you can reach the goal under your own momentum?
Have you suffered so much for nothing? If that’s the way you think, your suffering certainly will have been pointless!
What about God, who supplies you with the Spirit and works miracles among you — does He do such because of your legalistic observance of the Law or because you trust in what you heard and are faithful to it?
It was the same with Abraham: “He trusted God and was faithful to God, and that was credited to his account as righteousness.”
Be assured, then, that it is those who live by trusting and being faithful who are truly children of Abraham.
Also the scripture, foreseeing that God would consider the Gentiles righteous when they live by trusting and being faithful, told the Good Message to Abraham in advance by saying, “In connection with you, ALL the NATIONS will be blessed.”
So then, those who rely on trusting and being faithful are blessed along with Abraham, who trusted and was faithful.
For everyone who depends on legalistic observance of Laws Commandments live under a curse, since it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the Scroll of the Law.”
Now it is evident that no one comes to be declared righteous by God through legalism, since “The person who is righteous will attain life by trusting and being faithful.”
Additionally, legalism is not based on trusting and being faithful, but on [misapplying] the text that says, “Anyone who does these things will attain life through them.”
The Messiah redeemed us from the curse pronounced in the Law by becoming cursed on our behalf; for the scripture says, “Everyone who hangs from a tree comes under a curse.”
Jesus the Messiah did this so that in union with him the Gentiles might receive the blessing announced to Abraham, so that through trusting and being faithful, we might receive what was promised -- the Spirit.
Brethren, let me make an analogy from everyday life: when someone swears an oath, no one else can put it aside or add to it.
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his seed. It doesn’t say, “and to seeds,” as if to many; on the contrary, it speaks singularly — “and to your seed” — and this “one” is the Messiah.
Here is what I am saying: the legal part of the Law, which came into being some 430 years afterwards, does not nullify an oath sworn by God, so as to abolish the promise.
For if the inheritance comes from the legalities of the Law, it no longer comes from a promise. But God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
So then, why the legalities of the Law? It was added in order to create transgressions, until the coming of the seed of whom the promise had been made. Moreover, it was handed down through angels and a mediator.
Now a mediator implies more than one, but God is one.
Does this mean that the legalities of the Law stands in opposition to God’s promises? NO WAY! For if the legalities of the Law which God gave had in itself the power to give life, then righteousness really would have arrived legalistically following such a Law.
But instead, the scripture shuts up everything under sin; so that what had been promised might be given, on the basis of Jesus the Messiah’s trusting faithfulness, to those who continue to be trustingly faithful.
Now before the time for this trusting faithfulness arrived, we were bound in subjection to the system which results from perverting the Law into legalism, kept under guard until this yet-to-come trusting faithfulness would be exposed.
Accordingly, the Law functioned as a custodian until the Messiah came, so that we might be declared righteous on the ground of trusting and being faithful.
But now that the time for this trusting faithfulness has arrived, we are no longer under a custodian.
For in union with the Messiah, you are all children of God as a result of this trusting faithfulness;
because as many of you as were immersed into the Messiah have clothed yourselves in the Messiah, in whom
there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor freeman, neither male nor female; for in union with the Messiah Jesus, you are all one.
Also, if you belong to the Messiah, you are now seed of Abraham and heirs according to the promise.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?
2 this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?
3 so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?
4 so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.
5 He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith [is it]?
6 according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;
7 know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,
8 and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --
9 `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,
10 for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed [is] every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'
11 and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'
12 and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them shall live in them.'
13 Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
14 that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.
15 Brethren, as a man I say [it], even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,
16 and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;
17 and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,
18 for if by law [be] the inheritance, [it is] no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant [it].
19 Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --
20 and the mediator is not of one, and God is one --
21 the law, then, [is] against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,
22 but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
23 And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,
24 so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,
25 and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,
26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
27 for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;
28 there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;
29 and if ye [are] of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.
Such stupidity Galatians! Who has cast you under a spell? Before your very eyes Jesus the Messiah was clearly portrayed as having died as a criminal.
I want to know from you just this one thing: did you receive the Spirit by legalistic observance of Law or by trusting in what you heard and being faithful to it?
Are you that ignorant? Having started off with the Spirit’s power, do you think you can reach the goal under your own momentum?
Have you suffered so much for nothing? If that’s the way you think, your suffering certainly will have been pointless!
What about God, who supplies you with the Spirit and works miracles among you — does He do such because of your legalistic observance of the Law or because you trust in what you heard and are faithful to it?
It was the same with Abraham: “He trusted God and was faithful to God, and that was credited to his account as righteousness.”
Be assured, then, that it is those who live by trusting and being faithful who are truly children of Abraham.
Also the scripture, foreseeing that God would consider the Gentiles righteous when they live by trusting and being faithful, told the Good Message to Abraham in advance by saying, “In connection with you, ALL the NATIONS will be blessed.”
So then, those who rely on trusting and being faithful are blessed along with Abraham, who trusted and was faithful.
For everyone who depends on legalistic observance of Laws Commandments live under a curse, since it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the Scroll of the Law.”
Now it is evident that no one comes to be declared righteous by God through legalism, since “The person who is righteous will attain life by trusting and being faithful.”
Additionally, legalism is not based on trusting and being faithful, but on [misapplying] the text that says, “Anyone who does these things will attain life through them.”
The Messiah redeemed us from the curse pronounced in the Law by becoming cursed on our behalf; for the scripture says, “Everyone who hangs from a tree comes under a curse.”
Jesus the Messiah did this so that in union with him the Gentiles might receive the blessing announced to Abraham, so that through trusting and being faithful, we might receive what was promised -- the Spirit.
Brethren, let me make an analogy from everyday life: when someone swears an oath, no one else can put it aside or add to it.
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his seed. It doesn’t say, “and to seeds,” as if to many; on the contrary, it speaks singularly — “and to your seed” — and this “one” is the Messiah.
Here is what I am saying: the legal part of the Law, which came into being some 430 years afterwards, does not nullify an oath sworn by God, so as to abolish the promise.
For if the inheritance comes from the legalities of the Law, it no longer comes from a promise. But God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
So then, why the legalities of the Law? It was added in order to create transgressions, until the coming of the seed of whom the promise had been made. Moreover, it was handed down through angels and a mediator.
Now a mediator implies more than one, but God is one.
Does this mean that the legalities of the Law stands in opposition to God’s promises? NO WAY! For if the legalities of the Law which God gave had in itself the power to give life, then righteousness really would have arrived legalistically following such a Law.
But instead, the scripture shuts up everything under sin; so that what had been promised might be given, on the basis of Jesus the Messiah’s trusting faithfulness, to those who continue to be trustingly faithful.
Now before the time for this trusting faithfulness arrived, we were bound in subjection to the system which results from perverting the Law into legalism, kept under guard until this yet-to-come trusting faithfulness would be exposed.
Accordingly, the Law functioned as a custodian until the Messiah came, so that we might be declared righteous on the ground of trusting and being faithful.
But now that the time for this trusting faithfulness has arrived, we are no longer under a custodian.
For in union with the Messiah, you are all children of God as a result of this trusting faithfulness;
because as many of you as were immersed into the Messiah have clothed yourselves in the Messiah, in whom
there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor freeman, neither male nor female; for in union with the Messiah Jesus, you are all one.
Also, if you belong to the Messiah, you are now seed of Abraham and heirs according to the promise.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?
2 this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?
3 so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?
4 so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.
5 He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith [is it]?
6 according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;
7 know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,
8 and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --
9 `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,
10 for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed [is] every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'
11 and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'
12 and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them shall live in them.'
13 Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
14 that to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.
15 Brethren, as a man I say [it], even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,
16 and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;
17 and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,
18 for if by law [be] the inheritance, [it is] no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant [it].
19 Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --
20 and the mediator is not of one, and God is one --
21 the law, then, [is] against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,
22 but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
23 And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,
24 so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,
25 and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,
26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
27 for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;
28 there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;
29 and if ye [are] of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.
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Re: Bible verse by verse
Galatians 4:1-31
What I am saying is that as long as the heir apparent is a child he is no different from the servant, even though he is the legal owner of the estate;
Meaning, he is under subjection to guardians and caretakers until a time previously established by his father.
it's the same regarding us (believers)— when we were “children” we were slaves to the nature of the universe;
but when the appointed time arrived, God sent forth His Son. He was born from a woman, born into a culture in which legalistic perversion of the Law was the norm,
so that He might redeem those in subjection to this legalism and thus enable us to become God’s children.
Now because you are children, God has sent forth into our hearts the Spirit of His Son, the Spirit who cries out, “Abba!” (“Dear Father!”).
So through God you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child you are also an heir.
In the past, when you did not know God, you served as slaves which in reality are non-gods.
But now believers do know God, and, more than that, are known by God. So how is it that a believer would turn back again towards the nature of the universe? Do you want to enslave yourselves again?
You regard special days, months, seasons and years!
I fear for you that my work among you has been wasted!
Brethren, I beg you: put yourselves in my place — after all, I put myself in your place. It isn’t that you have done me any wrong —
you know that it was because I was sickly that I proclaimed the Good Message to you first;
and even though my physical condition must have tempted you to treat me with scorn, you did not display any sign of disdain or disgust. No, you welcomed me as if I had been an angel of God, as if I had been the Messiah Jesus himself!
So what occurred to the joy you felt? For I know that had it been possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. [It is likely PAUL had some eye infection/impairment]
Have I now become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
True, these teachers are desirous for you, but their motives are not good. They want to separate you from us so that you will become zealous for them.
To be zealous is good, provided always that the cause is good. Absolutely, whether I am with you or not,
my dear children, I am suffering the pains of giving birth to you all over again — and this will go on until the Messiah takes shape in you.
I wish I could be there with you now and change my tone of voice. I don’t know what to do with you.
Tell me, you who want to be in subjection to the system that results from perverting the Law into legalism, don’t you hear what the Law actually reveals?
It says that Abraham had two boys, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.
The one by the slave woman was born according to the limited capabilities of human beings, but the one by the free woman was born through the miracle-working power of God fulfilling His promise.
Now, to allegorize these things: the two women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children for slavery — being Hagar.
Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she serves as a slave along with her children.
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother;
for the scripture says,
“Rejoice, you barren woman who does not bear children!
Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor!
For the deserted wife will have more children
than the one whose husband is with her!”
You, brethren, like Isaac, are children referred to in a promise of God.
But just as then the one born according to limited human capability persecuted the one born through the Spirit’s supernatural power, so it is now.
Nevertheless, what does the Scriptures say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for by no means will the son of the slave woman inherit along with the son of the free woman!”
So, brethren, we are children not of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,
2 but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,
3 so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,
4 and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,
5 that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;
6 and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'
7 so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
8 But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,
9 and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?
10 days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!
11 I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.
12 Become as I [am] -- because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,
13 and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,
14 and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus;
15 what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;
16 so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
17 they are zealous for you -- [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;
18 and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;
19 my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,
20 and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.
21 Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?
22 for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,
23 but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;
24 which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;
25 for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children,
26 and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,
27 for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many [are] the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'
28 And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,
29 but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;
30 but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'
31 then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's
What I am saying is that as long as the heir apparent is a child he is no different from the servant, even though he is the legal owner of the estate;
Meaning, he is under subjection to guardians and caretakers until a time previously established by his father.
it's the same regarding us (believers)— when we were “children” we were slaves to the nature of the universe;
but when the appointed time arrived, God sent forth His Son. He was born from a woman, born into a culture in which legalistic perversion of the Law was the norm,
so that He might redeem those in subjection to this legalism and thus enable us to become God’s children.
Now because you are children, God has sent forth into our hearts the Spirit of His Son, the Spirit who cries out, “Abba!” (“Dear Father!”).
So through God you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child you are also an heir.
In the past, when you did not know God, you served as slaves which in reality are non-gods.
But now believers do know God, and, more than that, are known by God. So how is it that a believer would turn back again towards the nature of the universe? Do you want to enslave yourselves again?
You regard special days, months, seasons and years!
I fear for you that my work among you has been wasted!
Brethren, I beg you: put yourselves in my place — after all, I put myself in your place. It isn’t that you have done me any wrong —
you know that it was because I was sickly that I proclaimed the Good Message to you first;
and even though my physical condition must have tempted you to treat me with scorn, you did not display any sign of disdain or disgust. No, you welcomed me as if I had been an angel of God, as if I had been the Messiah Jesus himself!
So what occurred to the joy you felt? For I know that had it been possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. [It is likely PAUL had some eye infection/impairment]
Have I now become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
True, these teachers are desirous for you, but their motives are not good. They want to separate you from us so that you will become zealous for them.
To be zealous is good, provided always that the cause is good. Absolutely, whether I am with you or not,
my dear children, I am suffering the pains of giving birth to you all over again — and this will go on until the Messiah takes shape in you.
I wish I could be there with you now and change my tone of voice. I don’t know what to do with you.
Tell me, you who want to be in subjection to the system that results from perverting the Law into legalism, don’t you hear what the Law actually reveals?
It says that Abraham had two boys, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.
The one by the slave woman was born according to the limited capabilities of human beings, but the one by the free woman was born through the miracle-working power of God fulfilling His promise.
Now, to allegorize these things: the two women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children for slavery — being Hagar.
Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she serves as a slave along with her children.
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother;
for the scripture says,
“Rejoice, you barren woman who does not bear children!
Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor!
For the deserted wife will have more children
than the one whose husband is with her!”
You, brethren, like Isaac, are children referred to in a promise of God.
But just as then the one born according to limited human capability persecuted the one born through the Spirit’s supernatural power, so it is now.
Nevertheless, what does the Scriptures say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for by no means will the son of the slave woman inherit along with the son of the free woman!”
So, brethren, we are children not of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all,
2 but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,
3 so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,
4 and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,
5 that those under law he may redeem, that the adoption of sons we may receive;
6 and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'
7 so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
8 But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,
9 and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?
10 days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!
11 I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.
12 Become as I [am] -- because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,
13 and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,
14 and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus;
15 what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;
16 so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
17 they are zealous for you -- [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;
18 and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;
19 my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,
20 and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.
21 Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?
22 for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman,
23 but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;
24 which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;
25 for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now [is], and is in servitude with her children,
26 and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,
27 for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many [are] the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'
28 And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,
29 but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;
30 but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'
31 then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's
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Re: Bible verse by verse
Galatians 5:1-26
What the Messiah has freed us for is freedom! Therefore, be steady, and don’t let yourselves be tied up again to a yoke of slavery.
Hear my words — I, Paul, tell you that if you undergo circumcision the Messiah will be of no advantage to you at all!
Again, I warn you: any man who undergoes circumcison is obligated to observe the entire law!
You who are attempting to be declared righteous by God through legalism have cut yourselves from the Messiah! You have fallen away from God’s grace!
For it is by the power of the Spirit, who works within us because we trust and are faithful, that we confidently expect our hope of attaining righteousness to be fulfilled.
When we are united with the Messiah Jesus, neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is trusting faithfulness expressing itself through love.
You were running the race well; who has stopped you from following the truth?
Whatever persuasive means he used was not from the One who calls you.
“It takes only a little yeast to leaven the entire batch of dough.”
I'm confident that since you are united with the Lord, you will take no other view; and that the one who has been disturbing you, whoever he may be, will have to bear his punishment.
And as for me, brethren, if I am still preaching that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, my preaching concerning the crucifixion would cause no offense whatever.
I wish the people who are bothering you would go the whole way and castrate themselves!
For, brothers, you were called to be free. Only do not let that freedom become an excuse for allowing your old nature to have its way. Instead, serve each other lovingly.
For the entire Law is summed up in this one sentence: “Love your neighbor as yourself”;
but if you go on snapping at each other and tearing each other to pieces, watch out, or you will be destroyed by each other!
What I am saying is this: run your lives by the Spirit. Then you will not do what your old nature desires.
For the old nature wants what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the old nature. They diametrically opposes each other, so that you find yourselves unable to carry out your good intentions.
But if you are led by the Spirit, then you are not in subjection to the system that results from perverting the Law into legalism.
And it is perfectly visible what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency;
involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue
and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you again as I have warned you previously: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
humility, self control. Nothing in the Law stands against such things.
Moreover, those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have killed their old nature on the tree, along with its passions and wants.
Since it is through the Spirit that we have Life, let it also be through the Spirit that we guide our lives day by day.
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
2 lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;
3 and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;
4 ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;
5 for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,
6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
7 Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?
8 the obedience [is] not of him who is calling you!
9 a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;
10 I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
11 And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;
12 O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!
13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
14 for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'
15 and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.
16 And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;
17 for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;
18 and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.
19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,
21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
24 and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
25 if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;
26 let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!
What the Messiah has freed us for is freedom! Therefore, be steady, and don’t let yourselves be tied up again to a yoke of slavery.
Hear my words — I, Paul, tell you that if you undergo circumcision the Messiah will be of no advantage to you at all!
Again, I warn you: any man who undergoes circumcison is obligated to observe the entire law!
You who are attempting to be declared righteous by God through legalism have cut yourselves from the Messiah! You have fallen away from God’s grace!
For it is by the power of the Spirit, who works within us because we trust and are faithful, that we confidently expect our hope of attaining righteousness to be fulfilled.
When we are united with the Messiah Jesus, neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is trusting faithfulness expressing itself through love.
You were running the race well; who has stopped you from following the truth?
Whatever persuasive means he used was not from the One who calls you.
“It takes only a little yeast to leaven the entire batch of dough.”
I'm confident that since you are united with the Lord, you will take no other view; and that the one who has been disturbing you, whoever he may be, will have to bear his punishment.
And as for me, brethren, if I am still preaching that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, my preaching concerning the crucifixion would cause no offense whatever.
I wish the people who are bothering you would go the whole way and castrate themselves!
For, brothers, you were called to be free. Only do not let that freedom become an excuse for allowing your old nature to have its way. Instead, serve each other lovingly.
For the entire Law is summed up in this one sentence: “Love your neighbor as yourself”;
but if you go on snapping at each other and tearing each other to pieces, watch out, or you will be destroyed by each other!
What I am saying is this: run your lives by the Spirit. Then you will not do what your old nature desires.
For the old nature wants what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the old nature. They diametrically opposes each other, so that you find yourselves unable to carry out your good intentions.
But if you are led by the Spirit, then you are not in subjection to the system that results from perverting the Law into legalism.
And it is perfectly visible what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency;
involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue
and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you again as I have warned you previously: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
humility, self control. Nothing in the Law stands against such things.
Moreover, those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have killed their old nature on the tree, along with its passions and wants.
Since it is through the Spirit that we have Life, let it also be through the Spirit that we guide our lives day by day.
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
2 lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;
3 and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;
4 ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;
5 for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,
6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
7 Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?
8 the obedience [is] not of him who is calling you!
9 a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;
10 I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
11 And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;
12 O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!
13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
14 for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'
15 and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.
16 And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;
17 for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;
18 and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.
19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,
21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
24 and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
25 if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;
26 let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!
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Re: Bible verse by verse
Galatians 6:1-18
Brethren, suppose someone is caught doing something wrong. You who have the Spirit should point that one in the right direction, but do so with humility, keeping an eye on yourselves so that you won’t be tempted also.
Bear one another’s cares. In this way you will be fulfilling the Law’s true meaning, which the Messiah upholds.
For if anyone thinks he is important when he is really nothing, he is kidding himself.
So let each of you scrutinize his own actions. Then if you do find something to boast about, at least the boasting will be based on what you have actually accomplished and not merely on a judgment call that you are better than someone else;
for each person will carry his own load.
But whoever is being instructed in the Word should share all the good things he has with his instructor.
Don’t delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God! A person reaps what he plants.
Those who continuously sow in the field of their old nature, in order to meet its demands, will eventually reap disaster; but those who keep sowing in the field of the Spirit will reap from the Spirit everlasting life.
So let us not grow weary of doing what is good; for if we don’t give up, we will in due time reap the harvest.
Therefore, as opportunity arises, let us do what is good for everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful.
Look at the large lettering I use as I close in my own handwriting.
It is those who want to appear good outwardly who are trying to get you to be circumcised. The only reason they are doing it is to escape persecution for preaching concerning the Messiah’s crucifixion.
For even those who are getting circumcised don’t practice the Law. Quite the contrary, they want you to get circumcised so that they can boast of having gained your adherence.
But as for me, Heaven forbid that I should boast about anything except the execution tree of our Lord Jesus the Messiah! Through him, as far as I am concerned, the world has been put to death on the tree; and through Him, as far as the world is concerned, I have been put to death on the tree.
For neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is being a new creation.
And as many as set their lives by this rule, peace to them and mercy, and upon the Israel of God!
From now on, I don’t want anyone to give me any more aggravation, because I have scars on my body to prove that I'm owned by Jesus!
The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah be with your spirit, brethren. So be it.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who [are] spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;
2 of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,
3 for if any one doth think [himself] to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;
4 and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,
5 for each one his own burden shall bear.
6 And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.
7 Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,
8 because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
9 and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;
10 therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.
11 Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand;
12 as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,
13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.
14 And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;
15 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;
16 and as many as by this rule do walk -- peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!
17 Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body do bear.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with your spirit, brethren! Amen.
Brethren, suppose someone is caught doing something wrong. You who have the Spirit should point that one in the right direction, but do so with humility, keeping an eye on yourselves so that you won’t be tempted also.
Bear one another’s cares. In this way you will be fulfilling the Law’s true meaning, which the Messiah upholds.
For if anyone thinks he is important when he is really nothing, he is kidding himself.
So let each of you scrutinize his own actions. Then if you do find something to boast about, at least the boasting will be based on what you have actually accomplished and not merely on a judgment call that you are better than someone else;
for each person will carry his own load.
But whoever is being instructed in the Word should share all the good things he has with his instructor.
Don’t delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God! A person reaps what he plants.
Those who continuously sow in the field of their old nature, in order to meet its demands, will eventually reap disaster; but those who keep sowing in the field of the Spirit will reap from the Spirit everlasting life.
So let us not grow weary of doing what is good; for if we don’t give up, we will in due time reap the harvest.
Therefore, as opportunity arises, let us do what is good for everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful.
Look at the large lettering I use as I close in my own handwriting.
It is those who want to appear good outwardly who are trying to get you to be circumcised. The only reason they are doing it is to escape persecution for preaching concerning the Messiah’s crucifixion.
For even those who are getting circumcised don’t practice the Law. Quite the contrary, they want you to get circumcised so that they can boast of having gained your adherence.
But as for me, Heaven forbid that I should boast about anything except the execution tree of our Lord Jesus the Messiah! Through him, as far as I am concerned, the world has been put to death on the tree; and through Him, as far as the world is concerned, I have been put to death on the tree.
For neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is being a new creation.
And as many as set their lives by this rule, peace to them and mercy, and upon the Israel of God!
From now on, I don’t want anyone to give me any more aggravation, because I have scars on my body to prove that I'm owned by Jesus!
The grace of our Lord Jesus the Messiah be with your spirit, brethren. So be it.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who [are] spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;
2 of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,
3 for if any one doth think [himself] to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;
4 and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,
5 for each one his own burden shall bear.
6 And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing -- in all good things.
7 Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,
8 because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
9 and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;
10 therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.
11 Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand;
12 as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,
13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.
14 And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;
15 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;
16 and as many as by this rule do walk -- peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!
17 Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body do bear.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with your spirit, brethren! Amen.
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Re: Bible verse by verse
Ephesians 1:1-23
From: Paul, by God’s will an apostle of the Messiah Jesus
To: God’s people living in Ephesus, (believers in the Messiah Jesus:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus the Messiah.
Praised be God, Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who in the Messiah has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heaven.
In the Messiah He chose us in love before the creation of the universe to be holy and without defect in His presence.
He planned in advance that through Jesus the Messiah we would be His children — in conjunction with His pleasure and purpose —
so that we would bring Him praise equal with the glory of the grace He gave us through the Beloved One.
In union with Him, through the shedding of His blood, we are freed. Our sins are forgiven; in accordance with the wealth of the grace
He has lavished on us. In all His wisdom and insight
He has made known to us His secret plan, which by His own will He designed in advance in connection with the Messiah
and will put into effect when the time is ripe — His plan to place everything in heaven and on earth under the Messiah’s leadership.
Also in union with Him we were given an inheritance, we who were picked in advance according to the purpose of the One who effects everything in keeping with the decision of his will,
so that we who earlier had put our hope in the Messiah would bring Him praise commensurate with His glory.
Additionally, you who heard the message of the truth, the Good Message offering you deliverance, and put your trust in the Messiah were sealed by him with the promised Holy Spirit,
who guarantees our inheritance until we come into possession of it and thus bring him praise commensurate with his glory.
For this reason, ever since I heard about your trust in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people,
I have not stopped giving thanks for you. In my prayers I keep asking
the God of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, the glorious Father, to give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you will have full knowledge of Him.
I pray that He will shed light to the eyes of your hearts, so that you will understand the hope to which He has called you, what rich glories there are in the inheritance He has promised his people,
and how surpassingly great is His power working in us who trust him. It works with the same mighty strength He used
when he worked in the Messiah to raise Him from the dead and seat him at His right hand in heaven,
far above every ruler, authority, power, dominion or any other name that can be named either in this age or in the future age.
Also, He has placed all things under His feet and made Him leader over everything for the Messianic Community,
which is His body, the full expression of Him who fills all creation.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
3 Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
5 having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,
7 in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
8 in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
9 having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,
10 in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;
11 in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,
12 for our being to the praise of His glory, [even] those who did first hope in the Christ,
13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.
15 Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,
16 do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,
18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
19 and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,
20 which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set [him] at His right hand in the heavenly [places],
21 far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;
22 and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,
23 which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all
From: Paul, by God’s will an apostle of the Messiah Jesus
To: God’s people living in Ephesus, (believers in the Messiah Jesus:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus the Messiah.
Praised be God, Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who in the Messiah has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heaven.
In the Messiah He chose us in love before the creation of the universe to be holy and without defect in His presence.
He planned in advance that through Jesus the Messiah we would be His children — in conjunction with His pleasure and purpose —
so that we would bring Him praise equal with the glory of the grace He gave us through the Beloved One.
In union with Him, through the shedding of His blood, we are freed. Our sins are forgiven; in accordance with the wealth of the grace
He has lavished on us. In all His wisdom and insight
He has made known to us His secret plan, which by His own will He designed in advance in connection with the Messiah
and will put into effect when the time is ripe — His plan to place everything in heaven and on earth under the Messiah’s leadership.
Also in union with Him we were given an inheritance, we who were picked in advance according to the purpose of the One who effects everything in keeping with the decision of his will,
so that we who earlier had put our hope in the Messiah would bring Him praise commensurate with His glory.
Additionally, you who heard the message of the truth, the Good Message offering you deliverance, and put your trust in the Messiah were sealed by him with the promised Holy Spirit,
who guarantees our inheritance until we come into possession of it and thus bring him praise commensurate with his glory.
For this reason, ever since I heard about your trust in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people,
I have not stopped giving thanks for you. In my prayers I keep asking
the God of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, the glorious Father, to give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you will have full knowledge of Him.
I pray that He will shed light to the eyes of your hearts, so that you will understand the hope to which He has called you, what rich glories there are in the inheritance He has promised his people,
and how surpassingly great is His power working in us who trust him. It works with the same mighty strength He used
when he worked in the Messiah to raise Him from the dead and seat him at His right hand in heaven,
far above every ruler, authority, power, dominion or any other name that can be named either in this age or in the future age.
Also, He has placed all things under His feet and made Him leader over everything for the Messianic Community,
which is His body, the full expression of Him who fills all creation.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
3 Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
5 having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,
7 in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
8 in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
9 having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,
10 in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;
11 in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,
12 for our being to the praise of His glory, [even] those who did first hope in the Christ,
13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.
15 Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,
16 do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,
18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
19 and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,
20 which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set [him] at His right hand in the heavenly [places],
21 far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;
22 and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,
23 which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all