and prevailed in the Jews' law, above many of my companions, which were of mine own nation, and was a much more fervent maintainer of the traditions of the elders.

Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.

The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.

If through our efforts to be made upright through Christ, we have ourselves been proved as much "sinners" as the heathen, does that make Christ encourage sin? By no means.

Have you suffered so many things and experienced so much all for nothing—if indeed it was all for nothing?

These men [the Judaizers] eagerly seek you [to entrap you with honeyed words and attention, to win you over to their philosophy], not honorably [for their purpose is not honorable or worthy of consideration]. They want to isolate you [from us who oppose them] so that you will seek them.

Now it is fine for you to be made much of honestly and all the time ??not simply when I can be with you.

as for me, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? for then there would not be so much objection to the doctrine of the cross.