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

So they glorified God because of me.

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

But I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

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

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

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

Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

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.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.