speech, yet I am not in knowledge; in all things we have been made thoroughly manifest to you.

7 Or, have I committed a fault, in lowering myself that ye may be exalted; because I preach to you the gospel of God, without reward?

8 I robbed other churches, by taking their wages to do your service;

9 and, when I was present with you, and wanted any thing, I was chargeable to no one; for, the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my want: and in all things I have kept myself unburdensome to you, and so 'will keep myself.

10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting shall not be silenced in me in the regions of Achaia:

11 why? do I not love you? God knoweth :

12 but what I do, I will still do; that I may cut off all occasion from those who desire occasion to seem even as we, in that in which they glory: 13 for, such are false apostles, deceitful workers, counterfeiting apostles of Christ :

14 and no wonder; for Satan himself hath counterfeited an angel of light:

15 it is no great thing, then, if his ministers also have counterfeited ministers of justifica

tion; whose end will be according to their works.

16 I say again, Let no one think me a fool; but if otherwise, yet receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.

17 What I now speak, on this ground of boasting, I speak not after the Lord, but as foolishly;

18 since many boast after the flesh, I also will boast.

19 For ye bear with fools. gladly, being yourselves wise: 20 for ye bear with it, if any one enslave you, if any one devour you, if any one take from you, if any one exalt himself, if any one smite you on the face.

21 I speak with respect to reproach, as if we had been weak; yet, in whatsoever any one is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also:

22 are they Hebrews? so am I are they Israelites? so am I are they the seed of Abraham? so am I:

23 are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in prisons more frequent, in stripes above measure, in deaths often:

24 from the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one: Deut. xxv. 3. 25 thrice I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I passed in the deep;

26 in journeyings often; in perils from waters, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles; in perils in the city, in perils in the deserts, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren: 27 in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often; in hunger and thirst, in fastings often; in cold and nakedness:

28 besides the things that are without, that which presseth on me daily, the care of all the churches.

29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is made to stumble, and I burn not?

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I must needs boast, I will boast of the things which regard my infirmity:

2 the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

3 In Damascus, the governor of Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to apprehend me;

4 yet, I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands. 5 Must I needs boast? it is not good indeed, yet I will come even to visions and revelations of the Lord.

who, fourteen years ago, was caught up to the third heaven; whether in the body, I know not, or whether out of the body, I know not; God only knoweth :

7 and I know that such a man, (whether in the body, or apart from the body, God only knoweth,) was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

8 Of such an one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, except of my infirmities:

9 yet, if I should wish to boast, I should not be a fool, for I should say the truth: but I forbear, lest any one should, from the very sublimity of the revelations, ascribe to me more than he seeth me to be, or heareth from me:

10 wherefore, that I should not be exalted above measure, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to chastise me:

11 for this, I thrice besought the Lord, that it might depart from me;

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16 Truly, the signs of an apostle were wrought among you, in me, in all patience; in miracles, and wonders, and mighty deeds:

17 for, what is there in which ye were inferior to the other churches? unless it was that I myself did not burden you: forgive me this injury.

18 Behold, I am ready this third time to come to you, yet I will not burden you; for I seek not that which is yours, but you yourselves: for, the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children:

19 and I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for you; although the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 20 But be it, that though I did not burden you, yet, being crafty, I caught you by guile: you,

21 did I make gain of by any one of those whom I

sent to you?

22 I desired Titus to go to

you, and with him I sent a brother did Titus make gain of you in any thing? did we not both walk in the same spirit, nay, in the same steps, as heretofore?

23 Think ye that we are excusing ourselves to you? we are speaking before God, in Christ; and all, beloved, for the sake of your edification : 24 for I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as ye would not: lest there be contentions, jealousy, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

25 Lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you; and that I shall bewail many who have already sinned, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

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THIS third time that I am go

ing to you, every word shall be established by the mouth of two or three witnesses.

2 I formerly told you, and, (as when I was present with you the second time, though now absent,) I forewarn those that have heretofore sinned, and all the rest, that when I come again I will not spare them:

3 since ye seek a proof that Christ speaketh in me, who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you:

4 for, he was crucified through weakness, but liveth through the power of God; and we also are weak in him, but shall live, with him, through the power of God.

5 Make trial of yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves: or, know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye fail in the proof?

6 but I trust that ye will know, that we do not fail in the proof:

against the truth, but only for the truth.

9 For we rejoice, when we are weak but ye are strong: and for this we pray, even your perfection:

10 therefore, I write these things while I am absent, that when I am present I may not use severity, according to the authority which the Lord hath given me for edification, but c. x. 8. not for destruction.

11 Finally, brethren, farewell! Be ye perfect; receive Heb. xiii. 22. exhortation; be of one mind; live in peace; and the God of love, and of peace, will be with

you.

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an apostle, (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father who raised him from the dead ;)

2 and all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia ;

3 grace and peace be to you, from God the Father; and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world;

4 according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever! Amen!

5 I wonder that ye have so soon withdrawn yourselves, from him who called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel :

6 which, indeed, is not another gospel; only 'there are some who trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. 7 But if we, or an angel

from heaven, preach to you any other gospel than that Cor. xi. 4. which we preached to you, let him be accursed:

8 as we said before, so I now say again, If any one preach to you any other gospel than that which ye received from us, let him be accursed.

9 For, do I now strive to gain men, or God; or do I seek to please men? for, if I still pleased men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

10 But I certify to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me, was not preached after man;

11 for I neither received it from, nor was taught it by, man; but, by a revelation of Jesus Christ:

12 for, ye have heard of my former course in the Jewish religion, that I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it beyond measure;

13 and surpassed many of my equals in years, of my own