For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation from Jesus Christ.

I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.

This issue arose because of false brothers smuggled in, who came in secretly to spy on the freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

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.

The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith.

And I say this: The law, which came 430 years later, does not revoke a covenant that was previously ratified by God and cancel the promise.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. The law was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

Before this faith came, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.

But since that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

This persuasion did not come from the One who called you.