17 [a]From henceforth let no man put me to business: for I bear, in my body the [b]marks of the [c]Lord Jesus.

18 [d]Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your [e]spirit, Amen.

¶ Unto the Galatians written from Rome.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 6:17 Continuing still in the same metaphor, he opposeth his miseries and the marks of those stripes which he bare for Christ’s sake, against the scar of the outward circumcision, as a true mark of his Apostleship.
  2. Galatians 6:17 Marks which are burnt into a man’s flesh, as they used in old times, to mark their servants that had run away from them.
  3. Galatians 6:17 For it importeth much, whose marks we bear: for the cause maketh the Martyr, and not the punishment.
  4. Galatians 6:18 Taking his farewell of them, he wisheth them grace, and the Spirit against the deceits of the false apostles, who labored to beat those outward things into their brains.
  5. Galatians 6:18 With your minds and hearts.

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