I assure you<n id="1" /> that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">They court you eagerly,<n id="1" /> but for no good purpose;<n id="2" /> they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.<n id="3" />

My children &#8211; I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!<n id="1" />

But I say, live<n id="1" /> by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.<n id="2" />

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool.<n id="1" /> For a person<n id="2" /> will reap what he sows,

to reveal his Son in<n id="1" /> me so that I could preach him<n id="2" /> among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from<n id="3" /> any human being,<n id="4" />

envying,<n id="1" /> murder,<n id="2" /> drunkenness, carousing,<n id="3" /> and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!p>

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.

yet we know<n id="1" /> that no one<n id="2" /> is justified by the works of the law<n id="3" /> but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ.<n id="4" /> And<n id="5" /> we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ<n id="6" /> and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one<n id="7" /> will be justified.

<p class="bodytext">But from those who were influential<n id="1" /> (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people<n id="2" />) &#8211; those influential leaders<n id="3" /> added<n id="4" /> nothing to my message.<n id="5" />

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant.<n id="1" /> Scripture<n id="2" /> does not say, &#8220;and to the descendants<sc>,&#8221;sc><n id="3" /> referring to many, but &#8220;<b><i>and to your descendanti>b><sc>,&#8221;sc><n id="4" /> referring to one, who is Christ.

For it is written:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;<b><i>Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children;i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry"><b><i>break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains,i>b>p> <p class="poetry"><b><i>because the children of the desolate woman are more numerousi>b>p> <p class="poetry"><b><i>than those of the woman who has a husbandi>b><sc>.&#8221;sc><n id="2" />p>

But what does the scripture say? &#8220;<i><b>Throw out the slave woman and her sonb>, <b>for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the sonb>i><sc>&#8221;sc><n id="1" /> of the free woman.