From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for December 7   
      
   Galatians Chapter 1   
      
   1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ,   
   and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)   
      
   2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:   
      
   3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus   
   Christ,   
      
   4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this   
   present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:   
      
   5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.   
      
   6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the   
   grace of Christ unto another gospel:   
      
   7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would   
   pervert the gospel of Christ.   
      
   8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto   
   you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.   
      
   9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other   
   gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.   
      
   10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if   
   I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.   
      
   11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me   
   is not after man.   
      
   12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the   
   revelation of Jesus Christ.   
      
   13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews'   
   religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and   
   wasted it:   
      
   14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own   
   nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.   
      
   15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and   
   called me by his grace,   
      
   16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen;   
   immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:   
      
   17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me;   
   but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.   
      
   18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode   
   with him fifteen days.   
      
   19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.   
      
   20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.   
      
   21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;   
      
   22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:   
      
   23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past   
   now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.   
      
   24 And they glorified God in me.   
      
   Galatians Chapter 2   
      
   1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas,   
   and took Titus with me also.   
      
   2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel   
   which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of   
   reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.   
      
   3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be   
   circumcised:   
      
   4 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:   
      
   5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the   
   truth of the gospel might continue with you.   
      
   6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it   
   maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who   
   seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:   
      
   7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision   
   was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;   
      
   8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the   
   circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)   
      
   9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived   
   the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right   
   hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto   
   the circumcision.   
      
   10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I   
   also was forward to do.   
      
   11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face,   
   because he was to be blamed.   
      
   12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the   
   Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself,   
   fearing them which were of the circumcision.   
      
   13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that   
   Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.   
      
   14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth   
   of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew,   
   livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why   
   compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?   
      
   15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,   
      
   16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by   
   the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that   
   we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of   
   the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.   
      
   17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also   
   are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.   
      
   18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a   
   transgressor.   
      
   19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.   
      
   20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but   
   Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live   
   by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.   
      
   21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the   
   law, then Christ is dead in vain.   
      
   Galatians Chapter 3   
      
   1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey   
   the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,   
   crucified among you?   
      
   2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of   
   the law, or by the hearing of faith?   
      
   3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect   
   by the flesh?   
      
   4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.   
      
   5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles   
   among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?   
      
   6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for   
   righteousness.   
      
   7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the   
   children of Abraham.   
      
   8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen   
   through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee   
   shall all nations be blessed.   
      
   9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.   
      
   10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for   
   it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things   
   which are written in the book of the law to do them.   
      
      
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