Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord {is}, there {is} liberty.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only {use} not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

As free, and not using {your} liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. {using: Gr. having}

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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? {turn ye again: or, turn ye back} {elements: or, rudiments}

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

Let us hold fast the profession of {our} faith without wavering; (for he {is} faithful that promised;)

And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD {is} upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to {them that are} bound;

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not {in} the oldness of the letter. {that being...: or, being dead to that}

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Come unto me, all {ye} that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

For he that is called in the Lord, {being} a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, {being} free, is Christ's servant. {freeman: Gr. made free}

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me {with thy} free spirit.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort {you} that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Buy the truth, and sell {it} not; {also} wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast {our} profession.

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

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

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

But that which ye have {already} hold fast till I come.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath {days}: {in meat...: or, for eating and drinking} {respect: or, part}

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay {them} on men's shoulders; but they {themselves} will not move them with one of their fingers.

So then if, while {her} husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Come unto me, all {ye} that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord {is}, there {is} liberty.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

For my yoke {is} easy, and my burden is light.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth {therein}, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. {deed: or, doing}

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

As free, and not using {your} liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. {using: Gr. having}

And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, {and said}, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command {them} to keep the law of Moses. {rose...: or, rose up, said they, certain}

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

Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.

And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise {their} children, neither to walk after the customs.

But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

For he that is called in the Lord, {being} a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, {being} free, is Christ's servant. {freeman: Gr. made free}

Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour {you}, if a man take {of you}, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, {my} dearly beloved.

Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. {covenants: or, testaments} {Sinai: Gr. Sina}

But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

{Which} when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. {consolation: or, exhortation}

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and {his} doctrine be not blasphemed.

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

For though I be free from all {men}, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.