which is nothing else than that there are some who trouble you, and are determined to pervert the gospel of the Christ.

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach to you any other gospel than that which we have preached, let him be ac cursed.

As we said before, so even now I say again, if any one preaches to you any other gospel than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which is preached by me, is not according to man:

With respect to the things which I now write to you, behold, before God I lie not.

but I was not known, in person, to the churches of Judea which are in Christ.

They had heard only that he who formerly persecuted us was now preaching the faith which he once destroyed.

I acted thus indeed on account of false brethren, stealthily brought in, who stole in to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

requesting only that we would remember the poor, which same thing I have been diligent in doing.

For if I build again those things which I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

I have been crucified with Christ, yet I live; no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

This only I wish to learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring; he does not say: And to offsprings, as if he spoke of many; but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.

And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.

Is the law, then, against the promises of God? It can not be. For if a law had been given which could have given life, surely righteousness would have been by law.

But before the faith came, we were kept under law, being shut up to the faith which was to be revealed.

now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

and my trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or loathe; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

These things are allegorized: for these women are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai that brings forth for bondage, which is Hagar.

But Jerusalem which is above is free; and she is the mother of us all.

Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage.

For we, through the Spirit which we obtain by faith, wait for the hope of righteousness.

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

As many as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of the Christ.

For not even do those very men, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Henceforward let no one give me trouble: for I bear in my body the wounds which I received on account of the Lord Jesus.