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Grace be with you, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah;

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this evil world, agreeably to the pleasure of God our Father:

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I had till now pleased men, I should not have been a servant of the Messiah.

For ye have heard of my former course of life in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God exceedingly, and destroyed it:

In the things which I am writing to you, behold, before God ! I lie not.

and they glorified God in me.

And they who were esteemed prominent, (what they were, I care not; for God regardeth not the persons of men,)even these persons added nothing to me.

For I, by the law, have become dead to the law, that I might live to God; and I am crucified with the Messiah.

And henceforth it is no more I who live, but the Messiah liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I do not spurn the grace of God. For if righteousness is by means of the law, the Messiah died in vain.

In like manner Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

For, because God knew beforehand that the Gentiles would be made just by faith, he preannounced it to Abraham; as saith the holy scripture, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

And that no one becometh just before God, by the law, is manifest: because it is written, The just by faith, shall live.

And this I say: That the covenant which was previously confirmed by God in the Messiah, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot set it aside, and nullify the promise.

And if the inheritance were by the law, it would not be by promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

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

Is the law then opposed to the promise of God? Far be it. For if a law had been given, which could make alive, certainly, righteousness would have been by the law.

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

But when the consummation of the time arrived, God sent forth his Son; and he was from a woman, and was under the law;

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