1. मसीह ने स्वतंत्राता के लिये हमें स्वतंत्रा किया है; सो इसी में स्थिर रहो, और दासत्व के जूए में फिर से न जुतो।।

1. Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.

2. देखो, मैं पौलुस तुम से कहता हूं, कि यदि खतना कराओगे, तो मसीह से तुम्हें कुछ लाभ न होगा।

2. I am emphatic about this. The moment any one of you submits to circumcision or any other rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ's hard-won gift of freedom is squandered.

3. फिर भी मैं हर एक खतना करानेवाले को जताए देता हूं, कि उसे सारी व्यवस्था माननी पड़ेगी।

3. I repeat my warning: The person who accepts the ways of circumcision trades all the advantages of the free life in Christ for the obligations of the slave life of the law.

4. तुम जो व्यवस्था के द्वारा धर्मी ठहरना चाहते हो, मसीह से अलग और अनुग्रह से गिर गए हो।

4. I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace.

5. क्योंकि आत्मा के कारण, हम विश्वास से, आशा की हुई धार्मिकता की बाट जोहते हैं।

5. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit.

6. और मसीह यीशु में न खतना, न खतनारहित कुछ काम का है, परन्तु केवल विश्वास का जो प्रेम के द्वारा प्रभाव करता है।

6. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.

7. तुम तो भली भांति दौड रहे थे, अब किस ने तुम्हें रोक दिया, कि सत्य को न मानो।

7. You were running superbly! Who cut in on you, deflecting you from the true course of obedience?

8. ऐसी सीख तुम्हारे बुलानेवाले की ओर से नहीं।

8. This detour doesn't come from the One who called you into the race in the first place.

9. थोड़ा सा खमीर सारे गूंधे हुए आटे को खमीर कर डालता है।

9. And please don't toss this off as insignificant. It only takes a minute amount of yeast, you know, to permeate an entire loaf of bread.

10. मैं प्रभु पर तुम्हारे विषय में भरोसा रखताह हूं, कि तुम्हारा कोई दूसरा विचार न होगा; परन्तु जो तुम्हें घबरा देता है, वह कोई क्यों न हो दण्ड पाएगा।

10. Deep down, the Master has given me confidence that you will not defect. But the one who is upsetting you, whoever he is, will bear the divine judgment.

11. परन्तु हे भाइयो, यदि मैं अब तक खतना का प्रचार करता हूं, तो क्यों अब तक सताया जाता हूं; फिर तो क्रूस की ठोकर जाती रही।

11. As for the rumor that I continue to preach the ways of circumcision (as I did in those pre-Damascus Road days), that is absurd. Why would I still be persecuted, then? If I were preaching that old message, no one would be offended if I mentioned the Cross now and then--it would be so watered-down it wouldn't matter one way or the other.

12. भला होता, कि जो तुम्हें डांवाडोल करते हैं, वे काट डाले जाते!

12. Why don't these agitators, obsessive as they are about circumcision, go all the way and castrate themselves!

13. हे भाइयों, तुम स्वतंत्रा होने के लिये बुलाए गए हो परन्तु ऐसा न हो, कि यह स्वतंत्राता शारीरिक कामों के लिये अवसर बने, बरन प्र्रेम से एक दूसरे के दास बनो।

13. It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows.

14. क्योंकि सारी व्यवस्था इस एक ही बात में पूरी हो जाती है, कि तू अपने पड़ोसी से अपने समान प्रेम रख।
लैव्यव्यवस्था 19:18

14. For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom.

15. पर यदि तुम एक दूसरे को दांत से काटते और फाड़ खाते हो, तो चौकस रहो, कि एक दूसरे का सत्यानाश न कर दो।।

15. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out--in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?

16. पर मैं कहता हूं, आत्मा के अनुसार चलो, तो तुम शरीर की लालसा किसी रीति से पूरी न करोगे।

16. My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness.

17. क्योंकि शरीर आत्मा के विरोध में लालसा करती है, और ये एक दूसरे के विरोधी हैं; इसलिये कि जो तुम करना चाहते हो वह न करने पाओ।

17. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day.

18. और यदि तुम आत्मा के चलाए चलते हो तो व्यवस्था के आधीन न रहे।

18. Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?

19. शरीर के काम तो प्रगट हैं, अर्थात् व्यभिचार, गन्दे काम, लुचपन।

19. It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness;

20. मूत्ति पूजा, टोना, बैर, झगड़ा, ईर्ष्या, क्रोध, विरोध, फूट, विधर्म।

20. trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits;

21. डाह, मलवालापन, लीलाक्रीड़ा, और इन के ऐसे और और काम हैं, इन के विषय में मैं तुम को पहिले से कह देता हूं जैसा पहिले कह भी चुका हूं, कि ऐसे ऐसे काम करनेवाले परमेश्वर के राज्य के वारिस न होंगे।

21. the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.

22. पर आत्मा का फल प्रेम, आनन्द, मेल, धीरज,

22. But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard--things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments,

23. और कृपा, भालाई, विश्वास, नम्रता, और संयम हैं; ऐसे ऐसे कामों के विरोध में कोई व्यवस्था नहीं।

23. not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely. Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way.

24. और जो मसीह यीशु के हैं, उन्हों ने शरीर को उस की लालसाओं और अभिलाषों समेत क्रूस पर चढ़ा दिया है।।

24. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good--crucified.

25. यदि हम आत्मा के द्वारा जीवित हैं, तो आत्मा के अनुसार चलें भी।

25. Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives.

26. हम घमण्डी होकर न एक दूसरे को छेड़ें, और न ऐ दूसरे से डाह करें।

26. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.