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Galatians: Revised Murdock Translation
I.
1
PAULOS, an Apostle, not from men, nor by man, but by Yeshua Mshikha,
and Alaha his Father, who raised him from the dead;
2
and all the brethren who are with me; unto the churches which are in
Galatia.
3 Grace be with you, and peace, from Alaha
the Father, and from Maran Yeshua Mshikha;
4 who gave
himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this evil world,
agreeably to the pleasure of Alaha our Father:
5 to
whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
6 I admire, how
soon you have turned from Mshikha, who called you by his grace, unto
another gospel;
7 which does not exist, except as
there are some who would disquiet you, and are disposed to pervert
the gospel of Mshikha.
8 But if we, or an angel from
heaven, should announce to you differently from what we have
announced to you, let him be accursed.
9 As I have
just said, and now I again say it, that if any one announce to you
differently from what you received, let him be accursed.
10
For do I now persuade men, or Alaha? Or do I seek to please men? For
if I had till now pleased men, I should not have been a servant of
Mshikha.
11 But I make known to you, my brethren, that
the gospel announced by me, was not from man.
12 For I
did not receive it and learn it from man, but [I had it] by
revelation from Yeshua Mshikha.
13 For you have heard
of my former course of life in Judaism, that I persecuted the church
of Alaha exceedingly, and destroyed it:
14 and that I
went much farther in Judaism than many of my contemporaries who were
of my nation, and was peculiarly zealous for the doctrine of my
fathers.
15 But when it pleased him, who separated me
from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
16
to reveal his Son by me, that I should proclaim him among the
Gentiles; forthwith, I did not open it to flesh and blood;
17
nor did I go to Yerushalayim, to them who were apostles before me;
but I went into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus:
18
and after three years, I went to Yerushalayim to see Keipha; and I
remained with him fifteen days.
19 But others of the
Apostles I saw not, except Ya’aqub, Maran's brother.
20
In the things which I am writing to you, behold, before Alaha ! I lie
not.
21 And after that, I went to the regions of Syria
and Cilicia.
22 And the churches in Judaea which were
in Mshikha; did not know me personally:
23 but this
only had they heard, that he who before persecuted us, now preaches
that faith which in time preceding he subverted:
24
and they glorified Alaha in me.
II.
1 And
again, after fourteen years, I went up to Yerushalayim with
Bar-Nabba; and I took with me Titus.
2 And I went up
by revelation: and I explained to them the gospel which I announce
among the Gentiles; and I stated it to them who were esteemed
prominent, between myself and them: lest I should have run, or might
run in vain.
3 Also Titus, who was with me, and was a
Gentile, was not compelled to be circumcised.
4 And in
regard to the false brethren, who had crept in to spy out the liberty
we have in Yeshua Mshikha, in order to bring me under subjection;
5
not for the space of an hour, did we throw ourselves into subjection
to them; so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.
6
And they who were esteemed prominent, (what they were, I care not;
for Alaha regards not the persons of men,) even these persons added
nothing to me.
7 But, otherwise; for they saw, that
the gospel of the uncircumcision was entrusted to me, as to Keipha
was entrusted that of the circumcision.
8 For he that
was operative with Keipha in the apostleship of the circumcision, was
also operative with me in the apostleship of the Gentiles.
9
And Ya’aqub, Keipha, and Yokhanan, who were accounted pillars,
when they perceived the grace that was given to me, gave to me and
Bar-Nabba the right hand of fellowship; that we [should labor] among
the Gentiles, and they among the circumcision.
10 Only
[they desired] that we would be mindful of the needy; and I was
solicitous to do the same.
11 But when Keipha was come
to Antioch, I rebuked him to his face; because they were stumbled by
him.
12 For before certain ones came from Ya’aqub,
he ate with the Gentiles: but when they came, he withdrew himself,
and separated; because he was afraid of them of the circumcision.
13
And the rest of the Jews also were with him in this thing; insomuch
that even Bar-Nabba was induced to regard persons.
14
And when I saw, that they did not walk correctly, in the truth of the
gospel, I said to Keipha, before them all: If you are a Jew, and live
in the Gentile way, and not in the Jewish, why do you compel the
Gentiles to live in the Jewish way ?
15 For if we, who
are Jews by nature, and are not sinners of the Gentiles,
16
because we know that a man is not made just by the works of the
Torah, but by faith in Yeshua Mshikha; even we have believed in
Yeshua Mshikha, in order to be made just by faith in Mshikha, and not
by the works of the Torah: for, by the deeds of the Torah, no flesh
is made just.
17 And if, while we seek to become just
by Mshikha, we are found to be ourselves sinners, is Yeshua Mshikha
therefore the minister of sin ? Far be it !
18 For if
I should build up again the things I had demolished, I should show
myself to be a transgressor of the precept.
19 For I,
by the Torah, have become dead to the Torah, that I might live to
Alaha; and I am crucified with Mshikha.
20 And from
now on it is no more I who live, but Mshikha lives in me: and the
life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of Alaha,
who loved me and gave himself for me.
21 I do not
spurn the grace of Alaha. For if righteousness is by means of the
Torah, Mshikha died in vain.
III.
1 O you
Galatians, deficient in understanding! Who has fascinated you? For
lo, Yeshua Mshikha has been portrayed as in a picture, crucified
before your eyes.
2 This only would I learn from you,
Was it by works of the Torah, that you received the Spirit? or by the
hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish, that having
begun in the Spirit, you now would consummate in the flesh?
4
And have you borne all these things in vain? And I would, it were in
vain !
5 He therefore who gives the Spirit in you, and
who works miracles among you, [does he these things] by the deeds of
the Torah? or by the hearing of faith?
6 In like
manner Avraham believed Alaha, and it was accounted to him for
righteousness.*
7 Know you, therefore, that those who
are of faith, they are the children of Avraham.
8 For,
because Alaha knew beforehand that the Gentiles would be made just by
faith, he pre-announced it to Avraham; as says the holy scripture, In
you shall all nations be blessed.*
9 Believers,
therefore, it is, who are blessed with believing Avraham.
10
For they who are of the deeds of the Torah, are under the curse: for
it is written, Cursed is every one who shall not do every thing
written in this Torah.*
11 And that no one becomes
just before Alaha, by the Torah, is manifest: because it is written,
The just by faith, shall live.*
12 Now the Torah is
not of faith; but, whoever shall do the things written in it, shall
live by them.*
13 But Mshikha has redeemed us from the
curse of the Torah, and has been a curse for us; (for it is written,
Cursed is everyone that is hanged on a tree;)*
14 that
the blessing of Avraham might be on the Gentiles, through Yeshua
Mshikha; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
15 My brethren, I speak as among men; a man's covenant
which is confirmed, no one sets aside, or changes any thing in it.
16 Now to Avraham was the promise made, and to his
seed. And it said to him, not, to your seeds, as being many; but to
your seed*, as being one, which is Mshikha.
17 And
this I say: That the covenant which was previously confirmed by Alaha
in Mshikha, the Torah which was four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot set it aside, and nullify the promise.
18 And
if the inheritance were by the Torah, it would not be by promise: but
Alaha gave it to Avraham by promise.
19 What then is
the Torah? It was added on account of transgression, until that seed
should come, to whom belonged the promise: and the Torah was given by
angels through a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not of
one; but Alaha is one.
21 Is the Torah then opposed to
the promise of Alaha? Far be it. For if a Torah had been given, which
could make alive, certainly, righteousness would have been by the
Torah.
22 But the scripture has inclosed all under
sin, that the promise by faith in Yeshua Mshikha might be given to
them that believe.
23 But before the faith came, the
Torah kept us shut up unto the faith that was to be revealed.
24
The Torah, therefore, was a monitor for us unto Mshikha, that we
might become just by faith.
25 But the faith having
come, we are not under the monitor.
26 For you are all
the children of Alaha, by faith in Yeshua Mshikha.
27
For they who have been baptized into Mshikha, have put on Mshikha.
28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor
free-born, neither male nor female; for you are all one in Yeshua
Mshikha.
29 And if you are Mshikha's, then are you the
seed of Avraham, and heirs by the promise.
IV.
1 But I say,
that the heir, so long as he is a child, differs not from a servant,
although he is lord of all;
2 but he is under
supervisors and stewards, until the time established by his father.
3 So also we, while we were children, were in
subordination under the elements of the world.
4 But
when the consummation of the time arrived, Alaha sent forth his Son;
and he was from a woman, and was under the Torah;
5
that he might redeem them that were under the Torah; and that we
might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And, because you
are sons, Alaha has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your
hearts, who cries, Father, our Father.
7 Wherefore,
you are no longer servants, but sons; and if sons, then heirs of
Alaha; through Yeshua Mshikha.
8 For then, when you
knew not Alaha, you served them who in their nature are not gods.
9
But now, since you have known Alaha, or rather, have been known by
Alaha, you turn yourselves again to the weak and beggarly elements,
and wish again to be under them !
10 You observe days
and moons, and set times, and years!
11 I am afraid,
lest I have labored among you in vain.
12 Be you like
me; because I have been like you.
13 My brethren, I
beseech you. You have not injured me at all.
13 For
you know, that under the infirmity of my flesh, I at first announced
the gospel to you;
14 and the trial in my flesh, you
did not despise nor nauseate: but you received me as an angel of
Alaha, and as Yeshua Mshikha.
15 Where then is your
blessedness ? For I testify of you, that if it had been possible, you
would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.
16
Have I become an enemy to you, by preaching to you the truth ?
17
They are zealous towards you, yet not for good; but they wish to shut
you up, that you may be zealous towards them.
18 And
it is a good thing to be zealous at all times in good things; and not
merely when I am present with you.
19 [You are] my
children, of whom I travail in birth again, till Mshikha be formed in
you.
20 And I could wish to be now with you, and to
change the tone of my voice; because I am astonished at you.
21
Tell me, you who desire to be under the Torah, do you not hear the
Torah?
22 For it is written, that Avraham had two
sons, one by the bondmaid, and one by the free woman.
23
But he that was by the bond maid, was born after the flesh; and he
that was by the free woman, was by the promise.
24 And
these are allegorical of the two covenants; the one from mount Sinai,
which brings forth for bondage, is Hagar.
25 For Hagar
is the mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds with the present
Yerushalayim, and is serving in bondage, she and her children.
26
But the Yerushalayim above, is the free woman, who is the mother of
us.
27 For it is written, Be joyful, you barren, who
bear not: exult and shout, you who have not travailed: for more
numerous are the children of the desolate than the children of the
married woman.*
28 Now we, my brethren, like Yitzchak,
are the children of the promise.
29 And as then, he
that was born after the flesh, persecuted him [who was born] of the
Spirit; so also [is it] now.
30 But what says the
scripture ? Cast out the bondmaid, and her son; because the son of
the bondmaid shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.*
31
So then, my brethren, we are not sons of the bond-woman, but sons of
the free woman.
V.
1 Stand fast,
therefore, in the liberty with which Mshikha has made us free; and be
not subjected again to the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold,
I Paul say to you, That if you become circumcised, Mshikha is of no
advantage to you.
3 And again, I testify to every one
who becomes circumcised, that he is bound to fulfill the whole Torah.
4 You have renounced Mshikha, you who seek
justification by the Torah: and you have apostatized from grace.
5
For we, through the Spirit, which is from faith, are waiting for the
hope of righteousness.
6 For, in Mshikha Yeshua,
circumcision is nothing, neither is uncircumcision, but the faith
that is perfected by love.
7 You did run well: who has
interrupted you, that you acquiesce not in the truth ?
8
The bias of your mind is not from him who called you.
9
A little leaven leavens the whole mass.
10 I confide
in you through Maran, that you will entertain no other thoughts. And
he that disquiets you, shall bear his judgment, whoever he may be.
11 And I, my brethren, if I still preached
circumcision, why should I suffer persecution ? Has the offensiveness
of the cross ceased?
12 But I would, that they who
disquiet you, were actually cut off.
13 And you, my
brethren, have been called into liberty: only let not your liberty be
an occasion to the flesh; but, by love, be you servants to each
other.
14 For the whole Torah is fulfilled in one
sentence; in this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
15
But if you bite and devour one another, beware, lest you be consumed
one by another.
16 And I say: Walk you in the Spirit;
and never follow the cravings of the flesh.
17 For the
flesh craves that which is repugnant to the Spirit; and the Spirit
craves that which is repugnant to the flesh: and the two are the
opposites of each other, so that you do not that which you desire.
18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not
under the Torah.
19 For the works of the flesh are
known, which are whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness,
20
idol-worship, magic, malice, contention, rivalry, wrath, strife,
divisions, discords,
21 envy, murder, drunkenness,
revelling, and all the like things. And they who perpetrate these
things, as I have before told you, and also now tell you, do not
inherit the kingdom of Alaha.
22 But the fruits of the
Spirit are, love, joy, peace, long suffering, suavity, kindness,
fidelity, modesty, patience.
23 Against these there
stands no Torah.
24 And they who are of Mshikha, have
crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its cravings.
25
Let us therefore live in the Spirit; and let us press on after the
Spirit.
26 And let us not be vain-glorious, despising
one another, and envying one another.
VI.
1
My brethren, if one of you should be overtaken in a fault, do you who
are of the Spirit recover him, in a spirit of meekness: and be you
cautious, lest you also be tempted.
2 And bear you one
another's burdens, that so you may fulfill the Torah of Mshikha.
3
For if any one thinks himself to be something, when he is not, he
deceives himself.
4 But let a man examine his own
conduct; and then his glorying will be within himself, and not in
others.
5 For every man must take up his own load.
6
And let him that hears the word, communicate to him who instructs
him, in all good things.
7 Do not mistake; Alaha is
not deceived; for what a man sows, that also will he reap.
8
He who sows in the flesh, reaps from the flesh corruption: and he who
sows in the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9
And while we do what is good, let it not be wearisome to us; for the
time will come when we shall reap, and it will not be tedious to us.
10 Now, therefore, while we have the opportunity, let
us practice good works towards all men, and especially towards them
of the household of faith.
11 Behold, this epistle
have I written to you with my own hand.
12 They who
are disposed to glory in the flesh, they urge you to become
circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted on account of the
cross of Mshikha.
13 For not even they themselves, who
are circumcised, keep the Torah: but they wish you to become
circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
14 But
as for me, let me not glory, except in the cross of Maran Yeshua
Mshikha; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to
the world.
15 For circumcision is nothing; neither is
uncircumcision; but a new creation.
16 And they who
press forward in this path, peace be on them, and mercy; and on the
Yisrael of Alaha.
17 From now on let no one put
trouble upon me; for I bear in my body the marks of Maran Yeshua
Mshikha.
18 My brethren, the grace of Maran Yeshua
Mshikha, be with your spirit. Amen.
End of the Epistle to the
Galatians; which was written from Rome.
Reference
Notes:
3:6, Mattai
17:5
3:8, Genesis
15:6
3:10, Genesis
12:3
3:11,
Deuteronomy
27:26
3:12,
Habbakuk
2:4
3:13,
Deuteronomy
21:23
3:16, Genesis
12:7
4:27, Isaiah
54:1
4:30, Genesis
21:10
5:14,
Leviticus
19:18
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