Paul, an apostle not from men nor sent by any man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead??2 and all the brothers who are here with me, to the churches of Galatia;

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.

For I tell you plainly, brothers, that the good news that I preached is not a human affair.

I did not receive it from any man, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

but I did not see any other apostle, except James, the Lord's brother.

But they did not insist that even my companion Titus, although he was a Greek, should be circumcised,

But we did not submit to them for a moment, in order that the truth of the good news might remain yours.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, right before them all, "If you live like a heathen, and not like a Jew, though you are a Jew yourself, why should you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

We who are Jews by birth, and not sinful heathen,

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

For there is a curse upon all who rely on obedience to the Law, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who does not stand by everything that is written in the Book of the Law and obey it."

Now the promises were made to Abraham and his line. It does not say, "and to your lines," in the plural, but in the singular, "and to your line," that is, Christ.

But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist,

and yet what must have tried you in my physical condition, you did not scorn and despise, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

These men are making much of you, but not with honorable intentions. They want to shut you out, so that you will have to make much of them.

I wish I could be with you now, and use a different tone with you, for I do not know which way to turn about you.

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

Yet what does the Scripture say? "Drive the slave-girl and her son away, for the slave-girl's son shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

So, brothers, we are children not of a slave but of one who is free.

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 am confident in the Lord that you will not take a different view. The man who is unsettling you will have to pay the penalty for it, no matter who he is.

For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.

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

But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not subject to law.

Let us not in our vanity challenge one another or envy one another.

Every man ought to test his own work, and then whatever satisfaction he has will be with reference to himself, and not in comparison with someone else.

Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows.

Let us not get tired of doing right, for at the proper time we shall reap, if we do not give out.

Why, even those who let themselves be circumcised do not observe the Law themselves! But they want you to let yourselves be circumcised so that they can boast of that physical fact about you!