so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.

You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.

But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

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.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say, “and to the descendants,” referring to many, but “and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

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

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

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

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

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.

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.

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 –

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