Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

For I make known unto you, brethren, as to the glad-message which was announced by me, that it is not after man;

You have heard of my career and former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to hunt down and persecute the church of God extensively and [with fanatical zeal] tried [my best] to destroy it.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make acquaintance with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days;

I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running -- or had not run -- in vain.

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 those in authority??hat they once were makes no difference to me; God is no respecter of persons??hose I say who were in authority had no additions to make my message.

But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the 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.

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

Are you so thoughtless? After having begun in Spirit, do you make an end in flesh?

And the scripture having foreseen that God makes the Gentiles righteous from faith, proclaimed the good-news in advance to Abraham: In thee all the nations will be blessed.

Brothers, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant that has been ratified.

I mean to say that the testament which God has already ratified could not be annulled by the Law which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the Promise void.

Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

Is the Law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not; for if a law had been given which could make alive, then righteousness would actually have come from law;

That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

you make me apprehensive, that the labour I have bestowed upon you will be all in vain.

These men are making much of you, but not with honorable intentions. They want to shut you out, so that you will have to make much of them.

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

I wish they were even cut off from your communion, that make such disturbance amongst you.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.

Make no mistake ??God is not to be mocked ??a man will reap just what he sows;

See what large letters I make, when I write to you with my own hand!

Those who want to make a good impression in public [before the Jews] try to compel you to be circumcised, just so they will escape being persecuted for [faithfulness to] the cross of Christ.

Let no one make any more trouble for me, because I carry the scars of Jesus on my own body.