For before the coming of certain people from James, he was in the habit of eating with heathen Christians, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof from them, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

For if I try to build again what I tore down, I really prove myself to be a wrongdoer.

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us -- for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree" --

But at that former time, as you did not know the true God, you were slaves to gods that do not really exist,

O my dear children, I am suffering a mother's birth pangs for you again, until Christ is formed in you.

Now peace and mercy be on all who walk by this rule; that is, on the true Israel of God.