And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.

And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

This is the third time I am coming to visit you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.

But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell!

As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

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

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.