But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should proclaim to you a "good news" other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you a "good news" other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying.

I was still unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ,

I went up by revelation, and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

They only asked us to remember the poor?which very thing I was also zealous to do.

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

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.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not. For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

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

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?

but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to slavery, which is Hagar.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.