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

For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.

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

Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

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 –

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)

not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!

But the scripture imprisoned everything and everyone under sin so that the promise could be given – because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ – to those who believe.

Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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.