My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later.

Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary;

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

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.

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 wish the people who are upsetting you would go on, and have themselves emasculated!

But I never want to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on which the world has been crucified to me and I have been to the world.