Yet ¹  not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent ¹  persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, ²  so it is now.

But the law is not based on faith, ¹  but the one who does the works of the law ²  will live by them. ³ 

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, ¹  while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas ¹  in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force ²  the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. ¹  Scripture ²  does not say, “and to the descendants,” ³  referring to many, but “and to your descendant,” ⁴  referring to one, who is Christ.