And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!

not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

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

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.”

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

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

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he had clearly done wrong.

Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

Have you suffered so many things for nothing? – if indeed it was for nothing.

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

Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.

For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

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.

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!