Paul, an Apostle (not from men, and not through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who made him come back from the dead),

I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.

Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia.

Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;

And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.

For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.

Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.

But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.

But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.

But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.