Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

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 –

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.