Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

After that, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,

Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

Until some men arrived from James, he was in the habit of eating with the gentiles, but after those men came, he withdrew from the gentiles and would not associate with them any longer, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

For if I try to build up again what I had already destroyed [i.e., by returning to depend on compliance with the law of Moses to become right with God, after having rejected this system by trusting in Christ to save me], I would certainly be guilty of sin.

Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.

Now it is always pleasant to be eagerly sought after [provided that it is] for a good purpose, and not just when I am with you [seeking you myself—but beware of the others doing it].

But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

But ye, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.

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

I, however, brethren - if, circumcision, I yet proclaim, why am I yet persecuted? After all, the stumbling-block of the cross hath been set aside.

And as many as shall walk after this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Let no one interfere with me after this, for I bear branded on my body the owner's stamp of Jesus.