II. CORINTHIANS. in his infirmities. under Aretas the king kept there was given to me a thorn the city of the Damascenes in the flesh, the messenger of with a garrison, desirous to Satan to buffet me, lest I apprehend me: should be exalted above measure.

2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, 11 I am become a fool in glo(whether in the body, I can- rying; ye have compelled me: not tell; or whether out of for I ought to have been comthe body, I cannot tell: God mended of you: for in nothing knoweth ;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.

He threateneth

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den' you: nevertheless, being which heretofore have sincrafty, I caught you with ned, and to all other, that, guile. if I come again, I will not spare:

17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him. by the power of God toward you.

5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,

19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as except ye be reprobates? ye would not: lest there be 6 But I trust that ye shall debates, envyings, envyings, wraths, know that we are not reprostrifes, backbitings, whisper-bates.

ings, swellings, tumults:

7 Now I pray to God that ye

appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

21 And lest, when I come ado no evil; not that we should gain, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness

8 For we can do nothing aand fornication and lascivi-gainst the truth, but for the ousness which they have com- truth. mitted.

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1 He threateneth severity, and the power of his apostleship against obstinate sinners. 5 And advising them to a trial of their faith, 7 and to a reformation

of their sins before his coming, 11 he concludeth his epistle with a general exhortation and a prayer.

9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpHIS is the third time I am ness, according to the power coming to you. In the which the Lord hath given mouth of two or three wit-me to edification, and not to nesses shall every word be destruction.

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established.

11 Finally, brethren, fare

2 I told you before, and fore- well. Be perfect, be of good tell you, as if I were present, comfort, be of one mind, live the second time; and being in peace; and the God of love absent now I write to them and peace shall be with you.

Paul's doctrine

GALATIANS.

not of men. 12 Greet one another with a God, and the communion of

holy kiss.

the Holy Ghost, be with you

13 All the saints salute all. Amen.

you.

14 The grace of the Lord Je-The second epistle to the Corinthians sus Christ, and the love of

was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE

GALATIANS.

CHAPTER I.

6 He wondereth that they have so soon left him and the gospel, 8 and accurseth those that preach any other gospel than he did. 11 He learned the gospel not of men, but of God: 14 and sheweth what he was before his calling, 17 and what he did presently after it.

now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to

PAUL, an apostle, (not of please men? for if I yet pleas

men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

ed men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which 2 And all the brethren which was preached of me is not are with me, unto the church-after man. es of Galatia:

3 Grace be to you, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wast

5 To whom be glory for ever ed it: and ever. Amen.

6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9 As we said before, so say I

14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him a mong the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Why he went up

CHAPTER II. again to Jerusalem.

17 Neither went I up to Je- with me, being a Greek, was rusalem to them which were compelled to be circumcised: apostles before me; me; but I 4 And that because of false went into Arabia, and return- brethren unawares brought ed again unto Damascus. in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an bour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia:

22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ:

6 But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person: for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:

7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. 24 And they glorified God 8 (For he that wrought effectin me.

CHAPTER II.

1 He sheweth when he went up again to

Jerusalem, and for what purpose: 3

and that Titus was not circumcised: 11 and that he resisted Peter, and told

him the reason, 14 why he and other, being Jews, do believe in Christ to be justified by faith, and not by works

20 and that they live net in sin, who are so justified.

THEN fourteen years after

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ually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles;)

9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. 2 And I went up by revela- 10 Only they would that we tion, and communicated unto should remember the poor; them that gospel which I the same which I also was preach among the Gentiles, forward to do. but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

3 But neither Titus, who was 12 For before that certain