The spiritual conflict.

GALATIANS.

Christian rewards. il ye be circumcised, Christ shall I tell you before, as I have also told profit you nothing. you in time past, that they which 3 For I testify again to every man do such things shall not inherit the that is circumcised, that he is a debtor kingdom of God.

to do the whole law.

23 Meekness, temperance: agains* such there is no law.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, you, whosoever of you are justified by goodness, faith, the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

24 And they that are Clirist's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.

25 If we live in the Spirit, let u also walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be desirous of vam. glory, provoking one another, envying

7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you, that ye should not obey the truth? 8 This persuasion cometh not of him one another. that calleth you.

9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

10 I have confidence in you through

CHAP. VI.

BRETHREN, if a man be over

the Lord, that ye will be none other-spiritual restore such a one in the wise minded. but he that troubleth spirit of meekness; considering thyyou shall bear his judgment, whoso- self, lest thou also be tempted. ever he be. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

4 But let every man prove his own. work, and then shall he have rejoicing 13 For, brethren, ye have been call-in himself alone, and not in another." ed unto liberty; only use not liberty 5 For every man shall bear his own for an occasion to the flesh, but by burden. love serve one of another.

6 Let him that is taught in the word 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one communicate unto him that teacheth word, even in this, Thou shalt love in all good things.

thy neighbour as thyself.

7 Be not deceived; God is not mock15 But if ye bite and devour one an-ed: for whatsoever a man soweth, other, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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.

18 But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

ness,

that eball he also reap.

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.

9 And let us not be weary in welldoing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

19 Now the works of the flesh are 11 Ye see how large a letter I have manifest, which are these; Adultery, written unto you with mine own hand. fornication, uncleanness, lascivious- 12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you 20 Ídolatry, witchcraft, hatred, vari- to be circumcised; only lest they ance, emulations, wrath, strife, sedi-should suffer persecution for the cross tions, heresies, of Christ. 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, 13 For neither they themselves who revellings, and such like, of the which are circumcised keep the law; but

Blessings of election.

CHAP. 1, 11.

I,

Work of the Spirat desire to have you circumcised, that to this rule, peace be on them, and they may glory in your flesh. mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

14 But God forbid that I should glory, 17 From henceforth let no man trov. save in the cross of our Lord Jesus ble ine: for I bear in my boẩv Christ, by whom the world is crucifi-|marks of the Lord Jesus. ed unto me and I unto the world. 18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord 15 For in Christ Jesus neither cir-Jesus Christ be with your spirit. cumcision availeth any thing, nor un-Amen. circumcision, but a new creature.

Unto the Galatians, written from

16 And as many as walk according] Rome.

PAUL,

The Epistle of PAUL, the Apostle, to the
EPHESIANS.

CHAP. I.

an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ;

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inher itance, until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praias of his glory.

15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know 6 To the praise of the glory of his what is the hope of his calling, and grace, wherein he hath made us ac-what the riches of the glory of his in cepted in the Beloved: heritance in the saints,

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleas ure as will,

7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his, good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself;

10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are ou cartb, even in him:

19 And what is the exceeding great ness of his power to us-ward who be lieve, according to the working of his mighty power,

20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right band in the heavenly places,

21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only ir this world, but also in that which is to come;

22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head 11 In whom also we have obtained over all things to the church, an inheritance, being predestinated 23 Which is his body, the fulness of according to the purpose of him who him that filleth all in all, worketh all things after the counsel of his own will;

CHAP. 11.

AND you hath he quickened, who

12 That we should be to the praise of bisglory, who first trusted in Christ. 2

were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked

EPHESIANS

Salvation by grace. Gentiles fellong heirs. according to the course of this world, jaccess by one Spirit unto the Father according to the prince of the power 19 Now therefore ye are no more of the air, the spirit that now worketh strangers and foreigners, but fellow in the children of disobedience: citizens with the saints, and of the

3 Among whom also we all had our household of God; conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy,for his great love wherewith be loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ; (by grace ye are saved ;)

6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus;

7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should Joast.

20 And are built upon the foundation. of the apostes and prophets, Jesue Christ himself being the chief cornerstone ;

21 In whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord:

22 In whom ye also are builded to gether for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

OR

CHAP. III.

of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, this cause, I Paul, the prisoner 2 If ye have heard of the dispensa tion of the grace of God which is giv en me to you-ward .

3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; as 1 wrote afore in few words,

4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mys 10 For we are his workmanship, tery of Christ, Created in Christ Jesus unto good 5 Which in other ages was not made works, which God hath before or-known unto the sons of men, as it ia Jained that we should walk in them. now revealed unto his holy apostles 11 Wherefore remember, that ye be- and prophets by the Spirit; ing in time past Gentiles in the flesh, 6 That the Gentiles should be fellowwho are called Uncircumcision by heirs, and of the same body, and parthat which is called the Circuncision takers of his promise in Christ by the in the flesh made by hands; gospel:

12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now, in Christ Jesus, ye,who sometime were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between

7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God,who created all things by Jesus Christ;

10 To the intent that now, unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places, might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint

CHAP. IV.

Christian wall. not at my tribulations for you, which 12 For the perfecting of the saints, your glory. for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the ful

14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15 of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

16 That he would grant you, accord-ness of Christ: ing to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner œan;

17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and beight;

19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of

15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up unto him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted bythat which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the meas20 Now, unto him that is able to do ure of every part, maketh increase in exceeding abundantly above all that the body, unto the edifying of itself of we ask or think, according to the pow-love. er that worketh in us,

26 Be ye angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath; 27 Neither give place to the devil. 11 And he gave some, apostles; and 28 Let him that stole steal no more; sone, prophets; and some,evangelists; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is

Fruit of the Spirit.

EPHESIANS.

Relative duties. good, that he may have to give to him that sleepest, and arise from the dead, that needeth. and Christ shall give thee light. 15 See then that ye walk circum spectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the

hearers.

30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are scaled unto the day of redemption.

31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

32 And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

CHAP. V. Eye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

BE

17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

2 And walk in love, as Christ also 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto hath loved us, and hath given himself your own husbands, as unto the Lord. for us an offering and a sacrifice to 23 For the husband is the head of God for a sweet-smelling savour. the wife, even as Christ is the Head 3But fornication, and alluncleanness, of the church; and he is the Saviour or covetousness, let it not be once of the body.

named among you,as becometh saints; 24 Therefore, as the church is sub 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talk-ject unto Christ, so let the wives be to ing, nor jesting, which are not conve-their own husbands in every thing. nient: but rather giving of thanks. 25 Husbands, love your wives, ever 5 For this ye know, that no whore-as Christ also loved the church, and monger, nor unclean person, nor cov-gave himself for it;

etous man, who is an idolater, hath 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse any inheritance in the kingdom of it with the washing of water by the Clirist and of God. word;

6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

8 For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth ;)

10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

27 That he might present it to him self a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and without blemish.

28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife loveth himself.

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

32 This is a great mystery: but 1 speak concerning Christ and the church.

13 But all things that are reproved are 33 Nevertheless, let every one of you mnade manifest by the light: for what-in particular so love his wife even ae suever doth make manifest is light. himself; and the wife see that sho 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou reverence her husband