(for he who empowered<n id="1" /> Peter for his apostleship<n id="2" /> to the circumcised<n id="3" /> also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)<n id="4" />

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>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now before faith<n id="1" /> came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners<n id="2" /> until the coming faith would be revealed.

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment,<n id="1" /> namely, &#8220;<b><i>You must love your neighbor as yourselfi>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />

So then,<n id="1" /> whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.<n id="2" />p>

And all who will behave<n id="1" /> in accordance with this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on the Israel of God.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">For you have heard of my former way of life<n id="1" /> in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

But the scripture imprisoned<n id="1" /> everything and everyone<n id="2" /> under sin so that the promise could be given &#8211; because of the faithfulness<n id="3" /> of Jesus Christ &#8211; to those who believe.p>

But when the appropriate time<n id="1" /> had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

<p class="bodytext">From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.<n id="1" />p>

So then those who believe<n id="1" /> are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

Now an intermediary is not for one party alone, but God is one.<n id="1" />

But he is under guardians<n id="1" /> and managers until the date set by his<n id="2" /> father.

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?<n id="1" />

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent<n id="1" /> persecuted the one born according to the Spirit,<n id="2" /> so it is now.

Now the works of the flesh<n id="1" /> are obvious:<n id="2" /> sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

and when James, Cephas,<n id="1" /> and John, who had a reputation as<n id="2" /> pillars,<n id="3" /> recognized<n id="4" /> the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me<n id="5" /> the right hand of fellowship, agreeing<n id="6" /> that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.<n id="7" />