Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

For I make known unto you, brethren, as to the glad-message which was announced by me, that it is not after man;

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.

After that, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia,

Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

For before the coming of certain people from James, he was in the habit of eating with heathen Christians, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof from them, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

For if I try to build up again what I had already destroyed [i.e., by returning to depend on compliance with the law of Moses to become right with God, after having rejected this system by trusting in Christ to save me], I would certainly be guilty of sin.

Are you so without sense? After beginning with the Spirit, will you now end with the flesh?

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.

Now it is always pleasant to be eagerly sought after [provided that it is] for a good purpose, and not just when I am with you [seeking you myself—but beware of the others doing it].

Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

And, we, brethren, after the manner of Isaac, are children of a promise.

But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

I, however, brethren - if, circumcision, I yet proclaim, why am I yet persecuted? After all, the stumbling-block of the cross hath been set aside.

And as many as shall walk after this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Let nobody trouble me after this, for I carry on my body the scars that mark me as Jesus' slave.