But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”

But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.

Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.

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

But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

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

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

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

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.

Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.