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

For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

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

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

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”)

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”