As we have said before, so I now say again, If any one preach a gospel to you contrary to that which ye received, let him be accursed!

neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

Now as to what I am writing to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

For before certain persons came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew, and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you? before whose eyes Jesus Christ was plainly set forth among you crucified.

And what I mean is this; that a covenant that was before ratified by God, the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, cannot annul, so as to make void the promise;

But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the Law, shut up unto the faith which was to be revealed.