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.

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

Yet<n id="1" /> not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

They requested<n id="1" /> only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.p>

I have been crucified with Christ,<n id="1" /> and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So<n id="2" /> the life I now live in the body,<n id="3" /> I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God,<n id="4" /> who loved me and gave himself for me.

<p class="bodytext">Just as Abraham <i><b>believed Godb>, <b>and it was credited to him as righteousnessb>i>,<n id="1" />

so then, understand<n id="1" /> that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.<n id="2" />

Thus the law had become our guardian<n id="1" /> until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous<n id="2" /> by faith.

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.<n id="1" />

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

<t /><p class="bodytext">Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.<n id="1" />

However, it is good<n id="1" /> to be sought eagerly<n id="2" /> for a good purpose<n id="3" /> at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

But the Jerusalem above is free,<n id="1" /> and she is our mother.

Therefore, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.p>

You who are trying to be declared righteous<n id="1" /> by the law have been alienated<n id="2" /> from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

gentleness, and<n id="1" /> self-control. Against such things there is no law.

<t /><p class="bodytext">See what big letters I make as I write to you with my own hand!p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> if a person<n id="2" /> is discovered in some sin,<n id="3" /> you who are spiritual<n id="4" /> restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness.<n id="5" /> Pay close attention<n id="6" /> to yourselves, so that you are not tempted too.

<t /><p class="bodytext">I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one<n id="1" /> who called you by the grace of Christ<n id="2" /> and are following<n id="3" /> a different<n id="4" /> gospel &#8211;

nor did I go up to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia,<n id="2" /> and then returned to Damascus.p>