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Galatians 3:1

James Moffatt - New Testament

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you — you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

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but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.

Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel?

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct —

It was by faith that Abraham obeyed his call to go forth to a place which he would receive as an inheritance; he went forth, although he did not know where he was to go.

instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;

but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

Are you such fools? Did you begin with the spirit only to end now with the flesh?

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

Be strictly careful then about the life you lead; act like sensible men, not like thoughtless;

is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations,

But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" —

For as often as you eat this loaf and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith;

but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness —

And the word of God spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem greatly increased, and a host of priests became obedient to the faith.

for all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her vice, the kings of the earth have committed vice with her, and by the wealth of her wantonness earth's traders have grown rich."

in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

But they have not all given in to the gospel of glad news? No, Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed what they heard from us?

He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!

for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, — if that were possible.

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

They crossed Phrygia and the country of Galatia, the holy Spirit having stopped them from preaching the word in Asia;

with all the brothers who are beside me, to the churches of Galatia;

I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!




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