no man put it into my hands, no man taught me what it meant, I had it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

But the God who had set me apart from my very birth called me by his grace,

instead of going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return I came back to Damascus.

(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again.

Besides, the so-called 'authorities' (it makes no difference to me what their status used to be ??God pays no regard to the externals of men), these 'authorities' had no additions to make to my gospel.

On the contrary, when they saw I had been entrusted with the gospel for the benefit of the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been for the circumcised

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you ??you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

Have you had all that experience for nothing (if it has really gone for nothing)?

Why, it is as with Abraham, he had faith in God and that was counted to him as righteousness.

Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,

(for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ).

but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

Surely it is written in the Law that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-woman and one by the free-woman;