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

Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?