¹⁰ I am confident about you in the Lord that you will not think otherwise. But whoever it is that is confusing you will pay the penalty.^(A)

¹² I wish those who unsettle you would castrate themselves!

¹⁵ Let those of us, then, who are mature^[a] think this way, and if you think differently about anything, this, too, God will reveal to you.^(A)

⁷ not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.^(A)

³ And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer grief from those who should have made me rejoice, for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.^(A)

Warning against Antichrists

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. From this we know that it is the last hour.^{(A) 19} They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained^[a] with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.^{(B) 20} But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.^{[b](C) 21} I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and you know that no lie comes from the truth. ²² Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ?^[c] This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. ²³ No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also.^{(D) 24} Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.^{(E) 25} And this is what he has promised us,^[d] eternal life.^(F)

²⁶ I write these things to you concerning those who would deceive you.

²⁰ among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.^(A)

¹² It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who try to compel you to be circumcised—only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.^{(A) 13} Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.

¹⁷ They make much of you but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you may make much of them.

Law or Faith

3 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified!^(A)