Galatians 2:15

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

So he called them in and provided a place to stay. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: