I have said it before, and I now repeat it, if any one is preaching a gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

But then it was the good pleasure of God, who set me apart [for this purpose] before I was born, to call me [to this ministry] through His unearned favor.

chose to unveil His Son in me, so that I might preach the good news about Him among the heathen, at once, before I conferred with any human creatures,

or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

Now, as touching the things which I am writing to you, lo! before God, I am not guilty of falsehood: -

Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, in the presence of the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all. "If you, although you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, why do you try to compel the Gentiles to become Jews?

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.

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.

Before the Faith came we were perpetual prisoners under the Law, in preparation for the destined faith about to be revealed.

but he is under guardians and housemasters until the term appointed before by the father.

But now that ye know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that ye turn again to the poor weak elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage as before?

But you know that through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you before,

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.