PAUL an apostle ??not appointed by men nor commissioned by any man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead, ??2 with all the brothers who are beside me, to the churches of Galatia;

But the God who had set me apart from my very birth called me by his grace,

But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised.

But we refused to yield for a single instant to their claims; we were determined that the truth of the gospel should hold good for you.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned.

Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" ??15 We may be Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners,'

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

Now the Promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it is not said, 'and to your offsprings' in the plural, but in the singular and to your offspring ??which is Christ.

(an intermediary implies more than one party, but God is one).

but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

But faith has come, and we are wards no longer;

but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

So you are servant no longer but son, and as son you are also heir, all owing to God.

but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

These men make much of you ??yes, but for dishonest ends; they want to debar you from us, so that you may make much of them.

but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.

But the Jerusalem on high is free, and she is 'our' mother.

but just as in the old days the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit, so it is still to-day.

Hence we are children of no slave-woman, my brothers, but of the free-woman,

in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

I feel persuaded in the Lord that you will not go wrong. But he who unsettles you will have to meet his doom, no matter who he is.

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.