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Galatians 5:10

Weymouth NT

For my part I have strong confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt my view of the matter. But the man –be he who he may– who is troubling you, will have to bear the full weight of the judgement to be pronounced on him.

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As we have been informed that certain persons who have gone out from among us have disturbed you by their teaching and have unsettled your minds, without having received any such instructions from us;

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his body, that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord Jesus.

It was because I entertained this confidence that I intended to visit you before going elsewhere –so that you might receive a twofold proof of God's favour–

I beseech you not to compel me when present to make a bold display of the confidence with which I reckon I shall show my `courage' against some who reckon that we are guided by worldly principles.

while we hold ourselves in readiness to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as ever you as a Church have fully shown your obedience.

For this reason I write thus while absent, that when present I may not have to act severely in the exercise of the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.

And I write this to you in order that when I come I may not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy, confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy of you all.

In the case of such a person the punishment which was inflicted by the majority of you is enough.

Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.

I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.

And we send with them our brother, of whose zeal we have had frequent proof in many matters, and who is now more zealous than ever through the strong confidence which he has in you.

For other »Good News« there is none; but there are some persons who are troubling you, and are seeking to distort the Good News concerning Christ.

Yet there was danger of this through the false brethren secretly introduced into the Church, who had stolen in to spy out the freedom which is ours in Christ Jesus, in order to rob us of it.

From those leaders I gained nothing new. Whether they were men of importance or not, matters nothing to me–God recognizes no external distinctions. To me, at any rate, the leaders imparted nothing new.

You foolish Galatians! Whose sophistry has bewitched you–you to whom Jesus Christ has been vividly portrayed as on the Cross?

I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.

These men pay court to you, but not with honourable motives. They want to exclude you, so that you may pay court to them.

Would that I were with you and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

Would to God that those who are unsettling your faith would even mutilate themselves.

You were running the race nobly! Who has interfered and caused you to swerve from the truth?

From this time onward let no one trouble me; for, as for me, I bear, branded on my body, the scars of Jesus as my Master.

Therefore let all of us who are mature believers cherish these thoughts; and if in any respect you think differently, that also God will make clear to you.

And we have confidence in the Lord in regard to you that you are doing, and will do, what we command.

Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

I write to you in the full confidence that you will meet my wishes, for I know you will do even more than I say.




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