For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him fifteen days.

Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

Howbeit the'son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the'son by the freewoman is born through promise.

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now.