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

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.

Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.

And all who will behave in accordance with this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God.

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.

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.

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

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

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

So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

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

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

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

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

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

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

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.