We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female – for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

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

Now an intermediary is not for one party alone, but God is one.

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

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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?”

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

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

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

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!

and though my physical condition put you to the test, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as though I were an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus himself!

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”