s do good to all,
especially to those who are of the household of faith.

(11)See with what large letters I wrote to you with my own hand.

(12)As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, these
constrain you to be circumcised; only that they may not suffer
persecution for the cross of Christ. (13)For neither do they
themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but they desire that ye
should be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. (14)But far
be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world. (15)For
in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor
uncircumcision, but a new creation. (16)And as many as walk by this
rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and on the Israel of God.

(17)Henceforth let no one trouble me; for I bear the marks of Jesus in
my body.

(18)The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren.
Amen.

THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS.

I.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who
are in Ephesus, and believers in Christ Jesus: (2)Grace to you, and
peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(3)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in
Christ; (4)as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and blameless before him in love; (5)having
predestined us unto the adoption of sons by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will, (6)to the praise of the
glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the beloved;
(7)in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of
our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, (8)which he made
to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding; (9)making known
to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he
purposed in himself, (10)in reference to the dispensation of the
fullness of times, to gather for himself into one all things in the
Christ, the things which are in the heavens, and the things on the
earth; (11)in him, in whom we obtained also the inheritance[1:11],
being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things
after the counsel of his own will, (12)that we should be to the praise
of his glory who before have hoped in the Christ; (13)in whom ye also,
after having heard the wo