they simply kept hearing: “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

But not even Titus who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

since the One at work in Peter for an apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in me for the Gentiles.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned.

For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party.

But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say “and to seeds,” as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, who is Christ.

Now I say that as long as the heir is a child, he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father.

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to keep the entire law.

For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.

Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap,