I have said it before, and I now repeat it, if any one is preaching a gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel I preach is not man-made;

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

"yet because we know that no man is justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we ourselves also have put our faith in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for "By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified."

But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves also have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Far from it!

I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Did you have such experience to no purpose??f indeed it was really to no purpose?

but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.

Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would actually have come from law;

but the Scripture has shut up the whole world in prison together under sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

For all of you who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.

But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.)

It is always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you.

As for me, I am fully trusting you in the Lord that you will be no otherwise minded; but he who is trying to unsettle you will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.

Would to God that those who are trying to unsettle you would even have themselves mutilated.

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.

Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

See with what large letters I have written to you in my own handwriting!

God forbid that I should glory in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world has been crucified to me and I have been crucified to the world.