(In writing you this, I call God to witness that I am telling the truth!)

This is all I want to ask you: Did you receive the Spirit through doing what the Law commands, or through believing the message you heard?

My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later.

But before this faith came, we were kept shut up under the Law, in order to obtain the faith that was to be revealed.

I mean this: As long as the heir is a minor, he is no better than a slave, although he is the owner of all the property,

Tell me this, you who want to be subject to law: Will you not listen to the Law?

This is an allegorical utterance. For the women are two agreements, one coming from Mount Sinai, bearing children that are to be slaves; that is, Hagar

This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.

I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

Peace and mercy be on all who will follow this rule, and on the true Israel of God.

Let nobody interfere with me after this, for I bear on my body the scars that mark me as a slave of Jesus.