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

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:

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

and when they perceived the grace that was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision;

only they would that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.

O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

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