from me, who called you by the grace of Christ; this can be

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "Though you are a Jew, you have been living like a gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the gentiles must live like Jews?"

because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God.

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are also found sinners, is Christ, there fore, the minister of sin? It can not be.

I never can nullify the unmerited favor of God. For if right standing with God could come through law, then Christ died for nothing.

Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?

It is evident, too, that no one can find acceptance with God simply by obeying the Law, because "the righteous shall live by faith,"

Brothers, I am going to use a human illustration: Even a human contract, once it has been ratified, no one can annul or change.

For if our inheritance depends on the law, it can no longer depend on the promise. But it was by promise that God so graciously bestowed it upon Abraham.

Now the mediator or go-between [in a transaction] is not [needed] for just one party; whereas God is only one [and was the only One giving the promise to Abraham, but the Law was a contract between two, God and Israel; its validity depended on both].

Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It can not be. For if a law had been given which could have given life, surely righteousness would have been by law.

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again?

Where is your self-congratulation? For I can testify that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and have given them to me.

Can it be that I have become your enemy through speaking the truth to you?

But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly??ot just when I can be with you,

Here is what I am saying to you: If you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ can do you no good.

A little bit of yeast permeates the whole batch of dough [i.e., a few people can influence everyone else to do the wrong thing in this matter].

For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."

For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would.

gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Each person must examine his own actions, and then he can boast about his own accomplishments and not about someone else.

Indeed, the very men who let themselves be circumcised do not themselves observe the law. But they simply want you to let yourselves be circumcised, so that they can boast of you as members of their party.