You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will –

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! –

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says: “Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”

Clothe yourselves with the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.

Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –