O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One?

and the law has nothing to do with faith, but it says, "It is the man who does these things that will live by doing them."

Brothers, I am going to use a human illustration: Even a human contract, once it has been ratified, no one can annul or change.

So the law has been our attendant to lead us to Christ, so that we might through faith obtain right standing with God.

But now that this faith has come, we are no longer in the charge of the attendant.

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba," that is, "Father."

For the Scripture says: "Rejoice, you childless woman, who never bore a child; break forth into shouting, you who feel no birth pangs; for the desolate woman has many children, even more than the married one."

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

As for me, myself, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In such a case the hindrance done by the cross has presumably ceased!

But may it never be mine to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world!

For neither circumcision nor the lack of it has any value, but only a new creation.