As we said before, so even now I say again, if any one preaches to you any other gospel than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

For, do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? or do I strive to please men? If, indeed, I would still please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

but of the apostles I saw no other, but James the brother of the Lord.

With respect to the things which I now write to you, behold, before God I lie not.

They had heard only that he who formerly persecuted us was now preaching the faith which he once destroyed.

But from those who were supposed to be something; (what they were is a matter of no importance to me: God does not accept the person of man;) they, indeed, who were supposed to be something, communicated no additional truth to me;

knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed on Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of law: because, by works of law no flesh shall be justified.

I have been crucified with Christ, yet I live; no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Know, therefore, that those who are of faith are the sons of Abraham.

But that no one is justified by law in the sight of God, is evident: for the just by faith shall live.

Brethren, I speak of things common among men: No one sets a covenant aside, or enjoins any thing additional after it is confirmed, though it be a man's covenant.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring; he does not say: And to offsprings, as if he spoke of many; but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.

And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance be by law, it is no longer by promise: but God bestowed it on Abraham by promise.

Now, a mediator for one is impossible; but God is one.

But since the faith has come, we are no longer under a pedagogue:

But I say, that the heir, as long as he is a minor, differs in no respect from a servant, though he is owner of all;

So, then, you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God, through Christ.

But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods:

now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

You know that through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first:

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am in doubt concerning you.

But as then, he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was born ac cording to the Spirit, so even now.

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will cultivate no other disposition: but he that troubles you, who ever he may be, shall bear his condemnation.

Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness,

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Now those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision is any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

Henceforward let no one give me trouble: for I bear in my body the wounds which I received on account of the Lord Jesus.