since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.

From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)

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

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

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”)

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”

Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,