Today’s Reading: Galatians
4 - 6 (KJV)
Galatians 4
Gal 4:1 Now I say, That
the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing
from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Gal 4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the
time appointed of the father.
Gal 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in
bondage under the elements of the world:
Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of the time was come,
God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption of sons.
Gal 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth
the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Gal 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a
son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Gal 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did
service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Gal 4:9 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?
Gal 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and
years.
Gal 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon
you labour in vain.
Gal 4:12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am
as ye are: ye have not injured me at
all.
Gal 4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I
preached the gospel unto you at the first.
Gal 4:14 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.
Gal 4:15 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.
Gal 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy,
because I tell you the truth?
Gal 4:17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that
ye might affect them.
Gal 4:18 But it
is good to be zealously affected always
in a good thing,
and not only when I am present with you.
Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in
birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Gal 4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to
change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Gal 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law,
do ye not hear the law?
Gal 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons,
the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Gal 4:23 But he who
was of the bondwoman was born after the
flesh; but he of the freewoman was by
promise.
Gal 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are
the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which engendereth
to bondage, which is Hagar.
Gal 4:25 For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with
her children.
Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which
is the mother of us all.
Gal 4:27 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.
Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the
children of promise.
Gal 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh
persecuted him that was born
after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Gal 4:30 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.
Gal 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the
bondwoman, but of the free.
Galatians 5
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Gal 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be
circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Gal 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is
circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Gal 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Gal 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope
of righteousness by faith.
Gal 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision;
but faith which worketh by love.
Gal 5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye
should not obey the truth?
Gal 5:8 This persuasion cometh
not of him that calleth you.
Gal 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump.
Gal 5:10 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.
Gal 5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach
circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross
ceased.
Gal 5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble
you.
Gal 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto
liberty; only use not liberty for an
occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself.
Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take
heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Gal 5:16 This I
say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 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.
Gal 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not
under the law.
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are these; adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, 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.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is
no law.
Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the
flesh with the affections and lusts.
Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in
the Spirit.
Gal 5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory,
provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6
Gal 6:1 Brethren, 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.
Gal 6:2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil
the law of Christ.
Gal 6:3 For if a man think himself to be something,
when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Gal 6:4 But let every man prove his own work, and
then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Gal 6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.
Gal 6:6 Let him that is taught in the word
communicate unto him that teacheth in all good
things.
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Gal 6:8 For he that soweth
to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life
everlasting.
Gal 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in
due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Gal 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do
good unto all men, especially unto them
who are of the household of faith.
Gal 6:11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto
you with mine own hand.
Gal 6:12 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.
Gal 6:13 For neither they themselves who are
circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may
glory in your flesh.
Gal 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and
I unto the world.
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision,
but a new creature.
Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule,
peace be on them, and mercy, and upon
the Israel of God.
Gal 6:17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I
bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Gal 6:18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
