But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased

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

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

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

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!

to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was to the circumcised

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

But from those who were influential (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people) – those influential leaders added nothing to my message.

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.”

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”