Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

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.