and prevailed in the Jews' law, above many of my companions, which were of mine own nation, and was a much more fervent maintainer of the traditions of the elders.

Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.

The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.

If through our efforts to be made upright through Christ, we have ourselves been proved as much "sinners" as the heathen, does that make Christ encourage sin? By no means.

Did you suffer so much for nothing—if in fact it was for nothing?

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.

But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly??ot just when I can be with you,

as for me, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? for then there would not be so much objection to the doctrine of the cross.