But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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

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

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

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

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

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

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

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

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!

Brothers and sisters, if a person is discovered in some sin, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness. Pay close attention to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.

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 –

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.