not that another one really exists. To be sure, there are certain people who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel about the Messiah.

For you have heard about my earlier life in Judaism how I kept violently persecuting God's church and was trying to destroy it.

I do not misapply God's grace, for if righteousness comes about by doing what the Law requires, then the Messiah died for nothing.

For if the inheritance comes about through the Law, it no longer comes about through the promise. But it was through a promise that God so graciously gave it to Abraham.

Why, then, was the Law added? Because of transgressions, until the descendant came about whom the promise pertained. It was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

Now before faith came about, we were held in custody and confined under the Law in preparation for the faith that was to be revealed.

But now that faith has come about, we are no longer under a guardian.

Each person must examine his own actions, and then he can boast about his own accomplishments and not about someone else.

Why, not even those who are circumcised obey the Law! They simply want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your external appearance.

But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!