I marvel that you are so readily leaving Him who called you by the grace of Christ, and are adhering to a different Good News.

For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant.

saw fit to reveal His Son within me in order that I might tell among the Gentiles the Good News concerning Him, at once I did not confer with any human being,

I saw none of the other Apostles, except James, the Lord's brother.

I went up in obedience to a revelation of God's will; and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles. To the leaders of the Church this explanation was made in private, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

Indeed, when they saw that I was entrusted with the preaching of the Good News to the Gentiles as Peter had been with that to the Jews--

and when they perceived the mission which was graciously entrusted to me, they (that is to say, James, Peter, and John, who were considered to be the pillars of the Church)

And along with him the other Jews also concealed their real opinions, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their lack of straightforwardness.

As soon as I saw that they were not walking uprightly in the spirit of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, though you are a Jew, live as a Gentile does, and not as a Jew, how can you make the Gentiles follow Jewish customs?

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?

He who gives you His Spirit and works miracles among you--does He do so on the ground of your obedience to the Law, or is it the result of your having heard and believed:

So we see that it is those who possess faith that are blessed with believing Abraham.

Our freedom has been thus purchased in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing belonging to Abraham may come upon the nations, so that through faith we may receive the promised Spirit.

(Now the promises were given to Abraham and to his seed. God did not say 'and to seeds,' as if speaking of many, but 'and to your seed,' since He spoke of only one--and this is Christ.)

I mean that the Covenant which God had already formally made is not abrogated by the Law which was given four hundred and thirty years later--so as to annul the promise.

So that the Law has acted the part of a tutor-slave to lead us to Christ, in order that through faith we may be declared to be free from guilt.

Now I say that so long as an heir is a child, he in no respect differs from a slave, although he is the owner of everything,

So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.

in order to purchase the freedom of all who were subject to Law, so that we might receive recognition as sons.

Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir also through God's own act.

These men pay court to you, but not with honourable motives. They want to exclude you, so that you may pay court to them.

But we see that the child of the slave-girl was born in the common course of nature; but the child of the free woman in fulfilment of the promise.

Yet just as, at that time, the child born in the common course of nature persecuted the one whose birth was due to the power of the Spirit, so it is now.

But what says the Scripture? "Send away the slave-girl and her son, for never shall the slave-girl's son share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.

Always carry one another's burdens, and so obey the whole of Christ's Law.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us labour for the good of all, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

See in what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.