Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ,

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing."

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

But I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.