But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

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

If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.

I beg you, brothers and sisters, become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.

Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.

I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!