I went up under the guidance of a divine revelation. Now I laid before them the good news that I was in the habit of preaching among the heathen, but first I did so privately before the leaders, for fear that my course might be or might have been to no purpose.

So the law has been our attendant to lead us to Christ, so that we might through faith obtain right standing with God.

Here is what I am saying to you: If you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ can do you no good.

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk where the Spirit leads.

Let us stop being ambitious for honors, so challenging one another, envying one another.

For everyone must carry his own load.

Let us stop getting tired of doing good, for at the proper time we shall reap if we do not give up.

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us practice doing good to everybody, but especially to the members of the family of faith.

These men who are trying to force you to let yourselves be circumcised simply want to make a fine outward show, only to keep you from being persecuted for the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Indeed, the very men who let themselves be circumcised do not themselves observe the law. But they simply want you to let yourselves be circumcised, so that they can boast of you as members of their party.

Let nobody trouble me after this, for I carry on my body the scars that mark me as Jesus' slave.