⁴ Ye are severed from Christ, ye would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

²² It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

²¹ I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

¹⁵ looking carefully lest `there be' any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble `you', and thereby the many be defiled;

² Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

⁶ But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

³¹ but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at `that' law.

³² Wherefore? Because `they sought it' not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

⁴ For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

⁵ and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

⁶ and `then' fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

³ For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

⁴ For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.

⁵ For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

⁴ Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.

⁵ But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

²⁰ because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law `cometh' the knowledge of sin.

⁵ Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.

⁶ I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;

⁷ which is not another `gospel' only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

⁸ But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.

⁹ As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

¹⁷ Ye therefore, beloved, knowing `these things' beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.

¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him `be' the glory both now and for ever. Amen.

³⁸ But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

³⁹ But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.