I am afraid for you, lest somehow I have worked hard for you in vain.

And I wanted to be present with you just now and to change my tone; because I am uncertain about you.

And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, that you might have a second benefit,

And I wrote this very thing to you, lest when I came, I should have sorrow from those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is [the joy] of you all.

There[fore] I rejoice that in everything I am confident in you.

And we sent together with them our brother whom we often approved in many things, being diligent, but now [being] much more diligent, by [his] great confidence in you.

And we trust in the Lord concerning you, that the things which we command to you, you are both doing, and will do [them].

Having been persuaded of your obedience, I am writing to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

which is not another; except there are certain people who trouble you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.

and that was because of false brothers secretly brought in (who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might reduce us to slavery),

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed publicly among you as crucified?

They are zealous about you in the wrong way; but they wish to shut you out, so that you will be zealous about them.

As many as wish to make a good showing in the flesh, these compel you to get circumcised, only so that they should not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, but they wish you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

And certain men coming down from Judea were teaching the brothers, "If you are not circumcised in the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

Therefore when there arose a serious dissension and debate with Paul and Barnabus, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this issue.

Inasmuch as we have heard that some went out from among us and troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'that you must be circumcised and keep the law'--to whom we gave no [such] command--

Little children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

Who is a liar but the [one] who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the [one] who denies the Father and the Son.

Therefore let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

These things I wrote to you concerning those who deceive you.

Oh that those who disturb you would even castrate themselves!

deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Sufficient to such a person is this punishment which was [inflicted] by the majority,

But I beseech [you] that when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I plan to be bold toward some, who consider us as walking according to the flesh.

and being ready to avenge every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.

Because of this I write these things being absent, in order that when I am present I may not deal sharply with you, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for edification and not for destruction.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

But from those who seemed to be something--whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows partiality to no man--so to me, those with influence contributed nothing,

Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know [Him thus] no longer.