who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

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 –

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,

I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running – or had not run – in vain.

But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

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

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.

But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law.

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.

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.

Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

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.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.

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

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise!

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

idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,