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Paul glories in his infirmities.

2 CORINTHIANS.-CHAP. XIII. years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; A. M. cir. or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.

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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 ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes,

3 And I knew such a man, (whether in thee or, post- backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth ;)

4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

5 Of such a one will I glory: yet' of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

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7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest In 1 Co.9.2. should be exalted above measure.

8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

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9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of 86. Christ may rest upon me.

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10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for 1in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. 12 Truly the signs n of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for P I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use * sharp15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent ness, according to the power which the Lord for you; though the more abundantly I love hi Co.9.27 hath given me to edification, and not to deyou, the less I be loved.

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THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE GALATIANS.

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8 (For he that wrought effectually 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.

10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

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

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12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter P before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

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16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be Mat. 16.18 justified.

19 But other of the apostles-saw I none, save Ac. 10.34. James the Lord's brother.

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

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

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

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17 But if, Christ, we

while we seek to be justified by ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

18 For if I build again the things which 1 destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For Ithrough the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

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20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for Ro7.4,10 if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

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3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being
a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
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4 Have ye suffered so many things in "vain? if it be yet in vain.

5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, "In thee shall all nations be blessed.

9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, P Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

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Christ freeth us from the law 27 For as many of you as have been bap tized into Christ have put on Christ.

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs Paccording to the promise.

CHAPTER IV.

1 We were under the law till Christ came, as the heir is under his guardian till he be
of age.
5 But Christ freed us from the law: 7 therefore we are servants no longer
to it. 14 He remembereth their good will to him, and his to them, 22 and showed
that we are the sons of Abraham by the freewoman.

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is
a child, differeth nothing from a servant,
though he be lord of all;

2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, 2C3.21. God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

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14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; d Ac.7.53. that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

16 Now to y Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed. which is Christ.

17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

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9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for Ro.4.11, I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the He.9.9,10. flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the J.1.12 first.

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21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily g Mat.10.40 righteousness should have been by the law. 22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus

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14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15h Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of

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Paul glorieth in the cross. 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, A. D. cir. emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelDe.33.2lings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath a husband. 28 Nowwe, brethren, as Isaac was, are the 2 Jn.15.19. children of promise.

29 But as then he that was born after th flesh persecuted him that was born after th Spirit, even so it is now.

30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

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2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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5 For we through the Spirit wait for the, hope of righteousness by faith.

6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

7 Ye did run well; who did i hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy! peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

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25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. CHAPTER VI.

1 He moveth them to deal mildly with a brother that hath slipped, 2 and to bear one another's burden: 6 to be liberal to their teachers, 9 and not weary of well doing. 12 He showeth what they intend that preach circumcision. 14 He glorieth in nothing, save in the cross of Christ.

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RETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth him1 Pe.2.16. self.

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13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty only use not " liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, 8 Job 4.8 even in this; P Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and 'ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that "ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them m who are of the household of faith.

11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

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14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom the world is crucified P unto me, and I unto the world.

15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Unto the Galatians, written from Rome.

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE EPHESIANS.

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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our 1 Pe.1.2 Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

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5 Having predestinated us unto the adop-2 tion of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in " the beloved.

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7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the ver 6,12 riches of his grace;

8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

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22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

CHAPTER II.

1 By comparing what we were by 3 nature, with what we are 5 by grace, 10 he declareth that we are made for good works, and 13 being brought near by Christ, should not live as 11 Gentiles, and 12 foreigners in time past, but as 19 ciuzens with the saints, and the family of God.

AND you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

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2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by i grace ye are saved;)

6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

7 That in the ages to come he might show ledgment the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness 1 toward us through Christ Jesus.

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10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of
times he might gather together in one all the might gift of God:
things in Christ, both which are in heaven,
and which are on earth; even in him:

11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

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12 That we should be to the praise of his 1C 1212 time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called glory, who first trusted in Christ.

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18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the Mi.5.5. hope of his calling, and what the riches d of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

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20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself Re21.14 being the chief corner stone;

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21 In whom all the building fitly framed to

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