I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

neither returned to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me: but went my ways into Arabia, and came again unto Damascus.

Then after three years I came up to Jerusalem to examine Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.

Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

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;

and that because of incomers, being false brethren, which came in among others to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.

Now when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

For yer that certain came from James, he ate with the gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision,

I do not set at nought the grace of God; for if righteousness came by the law, truly Christ hath died in vain.

and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

Wherefore then serveth the law? The law was added because of transgression - till the seed came, to which the promise was made - and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Before that faith came, we were kept and shut up under the law, unto the faith which should afterward be declared.

And so the Law was our guardian until the Messiah came, so that we might be justified by faith.

but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Now, however, since you have come to know [the true] God [through personal experience], or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are turning back again to the weak and worthless elemental principles [of religions and philosophies], to which you want to be enslaved all over again?

Believers, I beg of you, become as I am [free from the bondage of Jewish ritualism and ordinances], for I have become as you are [a Gentile]. You did me no wrong [when I first came to you; do not do it now].

But you are aware [I am sure] that when I first came preaching the Gospel [message] to you, I had a physical handicap.

Such persuasion never came from Him who called you.

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.