For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant.

In making these assertions I am speaking the truth, as in the sight of God.

Why, if I am now rebuilding that structure of sin which I had demolished, I am thereby constituting myself a transgressor;

You foolish Galatians! Whose sophistry has bewitched you--you to whom Jesus Christ has been vividly portrayed as on the Cross?

Why then was the Law given? It was imposed later on for the sake of defining sin, until the seed should come to whom God had made the promise; and its details were laid down by a mediator with the help of angels.

I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.

Brethren, become as I am, I beseech you; for I have also become like you. In no respect did you behave badly to me.

It is always an honourable thing to be courted in an honourable cause; always, and not only when I am with you, my children--

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

Would that I were with you and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

As for me, brethren, if I am still a preacher of circumcision, how is it that I am still suffering persecution? In that case the Cross has ceased to be a stumbling-block!

See in what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.

But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.