I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

For I would like to clarify for you, brothers, the situation regarding the Gospel that I have preached: It did not originate from man.

And I advanced in Judaism above many like in my race, being more abundantly zealous of paternal traditions.

but on the contrary, seeing that I am intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, like Peter of the circumcision,

But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, in the presence of the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all. "If you, although you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, why do you try to compel the Gentiles to become Jews?

Now if, in our efforts to come into right standing with God through union with Christ, we have proved ourselves to be sinners like the heathen themselves, does that make Christ a party to our sin? Of course not.

The only thing I would like to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Holy Spirit [into your lives] by [meeting the requirements of] the law of Moses or by hearing [and obeying the message] of faith [in Christ]?

For if the inheritance [of what was promised] is based on [observing] the Law [as these false teachers claim], it is no longer based on a promise; however, God granted it to Abraham [as a gift] by virtue of His promise.

So, the law of Moses became like our "transportation to school," bringing us to [the school of] Christ where we [learn how to be] made right with God by faith [in Christ].

So also, when we [Jews] were like children, we were under bondage to the basic worldly rules [of the law of Moses].

I beg you, brothers: Become like me, for I also became like you. You have not wronged me;

and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

I would like to be with you right now and change my tone of voice, because I don’t know what to do about you.

But you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise;

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.