neither returned to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me: but went my ways into Arabia, and came again unto Damascus.

and that because of incomers, being false brethren, which came in among others to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.

For yer that certain came from James, he ate with the gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision,

Wherefore then serveth the law? The law was added because of transgression - till the seed came, to which the promise was made - and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Before that faith came, we were kept and shut up under the law, unto the faith which should afterward be declared.