Have you suffered so many things for nothing? – if indeed it was for nothing.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are<n id="1" /> a son, then you are also an heir through God.<n id="2" />p>

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with<n id="1" /> the Spirit.

But I saw none of the other apostles<n id="1" /> except James the Lord&#8217;s brother.

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed,<n id="1" /> I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God&#8217;s law.<n id="2" />

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham&#8217;s descendants,<n id="1" /> heirs according to the promise.p>

However, if you continually bite and devour one another,<n id="1" /> beware that you are not consumed<n id="2" /> by one another.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!<n id="1" />

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages<n id="1" /> sin? Absolutely not!

I do not set aside<n id="1" /> God&#8217;s grace, because if righteousness<n id="2" /> could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!<n id="3" />p>

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave<n id="1" /> it to Abraham through the promise.p>

Now, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted?<n id="2" /> In that case the offense of the cross<n id="3" /> has been removed.<n id="4" />

not that there really is another gospel,<n id="1" /> but<n id="2" /> there are some who are disturbing you and wanting<n id="3" /> to distort the gospel of Christ.

Am I now trying to gain the approval of people,<n id="1" /> or of God? Or am I trying to please people?<n id="2" /> If I were still trying to please<n id="3" /> people,<n id="4" /> I would not be a slave<n id="5" /> of Christ!p>

Where then is your sense of happiness<n id="1" /> now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me!

But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which<n id="1" /> the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas<n id="1" /> in front of them all, &#8220;If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force<n id="2" /> the Gentiles to live like Jews?&#8221;p>

Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God?<n id="1" /> Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.<n id="2" />