However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.

So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.

They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

They were only hearing, “The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith he once tried to destroy.”

not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was to the circumcised

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”

But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased

Have you suffered so many things for nothing? – if indeed it was for nothing.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.

You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?

I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running – or had not run – in vain.

But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”