owing to nothing but your being practised upon by some, who would overturn the gospel of Christ.

and that I made a greater proficiency in Judaism than many my contemporaries of my own nation, being an extraordinary zealot for the traditions of my forefathers.

however, Titus who was then with me, being a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised:

but when I saw, they conformed not their conduct to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all: if you being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not according to that of the Jews, why do you constrain the Gentiles to judaize?

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. (for it is written, " cursed is every one, that hangeth upon a tree.")

but now faith being come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.

being under tutors and guardians, 'till the time prefix'd by his father.

this Agar answers to the Jerusalem now in being, for she is in servitude with her children:

they who desire to make a figure in the world, constrain you to be circumcised, only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.