As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not based on human thought.

Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas, and I stayed with him 15 days.

Now I am not lying in what I write to you. God is my witness.

they simply kept hearing: “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

Now from those recognized as important (what they really were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism)—they added nothing to me.

know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?

Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and told the good news ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nations will be blessed through you.

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.

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

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say “and to seeds,” as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, who is Christ.

For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.

Now a mediator is not for just one person, but God is one.

But since that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Now I say that as long as the heir is a child, he differs in no way from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

you know that previously I preached the gospel to you because of a physical illness.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Now it is always good to be enthusiastic about good—and not just when I am with you.

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.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

But just as then the child born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so also now.

Now brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,

gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.

From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body scars for the cause of Jesus.