Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

which is not another; only there are some who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the Gospel of Christ.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.

For I make known to you, brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed by me is not according to man;

to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim the good news of Him among the gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood,

But other of the apostles I saw not, except James, the brother of the Lord.

Now as to the things I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised;

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.

But from those reputed to be something (whatever they were, it matters not to me: God does not accept man's person): to me, in fact, those of repute added nothing;

But, when I saw that they were not walking uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as do the gentiles, and not as the Jews, how do you compel the gentiles to live as do the Jews?"

We who are by nature Jews, and not sinners from among the gentiles,

yet knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of law; because by works of law no flesh shall be justified.

But, if while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is, then, Christ a minister of sin? It could not be!

I do not set aside the grace of God; for, if righteousness is through law, then Christ died needlessly!

For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it has been written, "Cursed is every one who continues not in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them."

Now the law is not of faith; but "He who did them shall live in them."

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his Seed. He saith not, "And to seeds," as of many; but as of One, "and to your Seed"; which is Christ.

But this I say: A covenant previously confirmed by God, the law, which came into existence four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate, that it should make the promise of no effect.

Now a mediator is not of one, but God is one.

Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It could not be! For, if a law had been given, which was able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been by law;

But then, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye served those which by nature are no gods;

and my trial in my flesh ye despised not, nor spurned; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

They are zealously seeking you, not nobly; they are wishing to shut you out, that ye may zealously seek them.

But it is good to be zealously sought in a good thing at all times, and not only when I am present with you,

Tell me, ye who are wishing to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

for it has been written, "Rejoice, O barren, that bear not! Break forth and cry, you that travail not! because many are the children of the desolate, rather than of her who has the husband."

Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a bond-woman, but of the free-woman.

For freedom did Christ make us free; stand fast, therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth,

The persuasion is not from Him Who calleth you.

For ye were called to freedom, brethren; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve one another;

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the desire of the flesh.

For the flesh covets against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to the other, that ye may not do the things which ye wish.

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

envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, as I also said before, that those practicing such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

But let each one prove his own work, and then will he have ground of glorying in respect to himself alone, and not to another.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man sows, the same shall be also reap;

And, in doing what is noble, let us not grow weary; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

As many as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

But it could not be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has become crucified to me, and I to the world.