¹⁰ Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

²⁷ He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

²⁶ All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

⁶ In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.

¹³ For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

¹⁴ And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.

¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.

⁸ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.

⁹ As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man is a preacher to you of any good news other than that which has been given to you, let there be a curse on him.

⁴ And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

¹ O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

² Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

³ Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?

⁴ Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.

¹⁸ For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

¹⁹ Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

²⁰ For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

¹⁴ But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

³ But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

⁴ For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.

¹⁷ Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

¹⁸ For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

¹² And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.

¹³ And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

¹⁴ You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

¹⁹ Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

¹⁵ He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

¹⁶ His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

¹⁵ The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

¹¹ But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.

³ The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

²⁰ There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

⁸ He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.

⁸ But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.

⁹ But Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking hard at him, said,

¹⁰ O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?

¹⁵ And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

¹⁶ It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.