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

Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

So he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect.

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

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’