But even though I myself or an angel from heaven were to preach any gospel other than that which I did preach to you, let him be accursed.

for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

But although Titus, my companion, was a Greek, they did not compel even him to be circumcised.

To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.

Did you have such experience to no purpose??f indeed it was really to no purpose?

Now it was to Abraham that the promises were spoken, and to his offspring. God did not say, "offsprings" as if speaking of many, but "and to your offspring," as of one; and this is Christ.

For if the inheritance comes from law, it no longer comes from a promise; but God did give it as a free gift to Abraham by a promise.

Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.)

So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;