But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother.

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

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

See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!

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

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

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?”

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.