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

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

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