But only they had heard that he who persecuted us before, now preacheth the faith which he formerly would have destroyed.

But I went up according to a divine revelation, and laid before them the gospel which I preach among the gentiles: though privately to those of note, least I should run, or had run in vain.

and that because of the false brethren clandestinely introduced, who had crept in as spies upon our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? not at all: for if a law had been given, which could have confered life, certainly righteousness would have been by the law.

What then was your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

where it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by a servant, and one by a free-woman?

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not destroyed by one another.