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.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to 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.

they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again.

Those who were looked upon as leaders -- what they were makes no difference to me -- God pays no attention to outward appearances these leaders added nothing new to me.

But when I saw that they were not living up to the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, and that before them all, "If you are living like a heathen and not like a Jew, although you are a Jew yourself, why do you try to make the heathen live like 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 that which I destroyed, then make I myself a trespasser.

I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law -- then Christ died in vain.

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.

Brethren, as a man I say it, even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

This I say, that the law which began afterward, beyond four hundred and thirty years, doth not disannul the testament, that was confirmed afore of God unto Christ ward, to make the promise of none effect.

What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make men conscious of their wrong-doings, and intended to last only till the coming of that 'offspring' to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.

the law, then, is against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

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 to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve 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!

As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

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