I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—
being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,
Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command.
I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.
I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.
And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.
I rejoice, because I have complete confidence in you.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough,
Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace.
But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.
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