and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed.