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Galatians 1:6

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

I am astonished at your so soon deserting him, who called you through the love of Christ, for a different 'Good News,'

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And he wondered at the want of faith shown by the people. Jesus went round the villages, one after another, teaching.

"Well," the man replied, "this is very strange; you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has given me my sight!

No, it is through the loving-kindness of the Lord Jesus that we, just as they do, believe that we have been saved."

For, in their ignorance of the Divine Righteousness, and in their eagerness to set up a righteousness of their own, they refused to accept with submission the Divine Righteousness.

It is through him that, by reason of our faith, we have obtained admission to that place in God's favor in which we not stand. So let us exult in our hope of attaining God's glorious ideal.

But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him-those who have received the Call in accordance with his purpose.

And those whom God destined for this he also called; and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous; and those whom he pronounced righteous he also brought to Glory.

Though you may have thousands of instructors in the Faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the Good News.

For, if some new-comer is proclaiming a Jesus other than him whom we proclaimed, or if you are receiving a Spirit different from the Spirit which you received, or a Good News different from that which you welcomed, then you are marvelously tolerant!

Unlike many people, we are not in the habit of making profit out of God's Message; but in all sincerity, and bearing God's commission, we speak before him in union with Christ.

I would remind you, Brothers, that the Good News which I told is no mere human invention.

But when God, who had set me apart even before my birth, and who called me by his love,

Which is really no Good News at all. But then, I know that there are people who are harassing you, and who want to pervert the Good News of the Christ.

But, when I saw that they were not dealing straightforwardly with the Truth of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, who were born a Jew, adopt Gentile customs, instead of Jewish, why are you trying to compel the Gentile converts to adopt Jewish customs?"

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.

Why, we did not for a moment yield submission to them, that the Truth of the Good News might be yours always!

On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the Gentiles, just as Peter had been for the Jews.

Indeed, the whole Law has been summed up in this one precept- -'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

You have severed yourselves from Christ--you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love.

To this you were called by the Good News which we brought you, to attain to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and the loving-kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.

I beg you, as I did when I was on my way into Macedonia, to remain at Ephesus; that you may instruct certain people there not to teach new and strange doctrines,

It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn Call--not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,

Do you, then, my Child, find strength in the help which comes from the union with Christ Jesus;

but in your whole life show yourselves to be holy, after the pattern of the Holy One from whom you received your Call.

For his divine power has given us everything that is needful for a life of piety, as we advance in the knowledge of him who called us by a glorious manifestation of his goodness.

May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, be with his People.




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