through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, and yet true;

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.

You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

For it is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person the Lord commends.

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!

You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and he gave him to the church as head over all things.