as I said before, so say I now again, if any one preach any other thing to you for gospel, than what you have received, let him be accursed.

and as to the false brethren, who insidiously crept in to spy out our liberty which we have by Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude;

But as for those who were men of real eminency, how considerable soever they were heretofore, it does not any ways affect me; God accepts not the person of any man: for they who were of note, in conference with me, had nothing new to add.

on the contrary, when they perceived that I had the province of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, as Peter had that of preaching it to the Jews,

have you so little understanding, as having begun in the spiritual doctrine of the gospel, to turn again to the law?

As Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness:

now to Abraham and his offspring were the promises made. he does not say, "to offsprings," as if he spoke of many; but as speaking of one, "and to thy offspring," which means Christ.

this therefore I say, that the law, which was not till four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the promise, that was ratified before by God, so as to set the promise afoot.

"To what purpose then was the law?" it was added as a check to transgressors, till the offspring should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels with the intervention of a mediator.

but before faith came, we were shut up together as prisoners under the custody of the law, 'till faith was to be revealed.

for as many of you as have been baptized into christianity, have been invested as christians.

Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, is in a state of servitude, tho' he is to be lord of all;

observing as you do, the days, the moons, the feasts and years.

I beseech you, brethren, be as I am, for I was as you are.

yet you did not despise me for the trial which attended my person, nor treated me with scorn; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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

but as then, he that was born in the ordinary course of nature, persecuted him, who was born by an extraordinary power; even so it is now.

but as for us, our minds are possessed with the hopes of justification by faith.

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.

for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

for all the law is comprehended in this one precept, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

therefore as we have opportunity, let us do good offices to all men, especially to the family of believers.

but far be it from me that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is as contemptible to me, as I am to the world.

as many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, even upon the Israel of God.