as I said before, so say I now again, if any one preach any other thing to you for gospel, than what you have received, let him be accursed.

for do I now act in obedience to men, or to God? or do I seek to please men? if I had hitherto pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.

who had only heard, that I, who formerly persecuted them, did now preach the gospel of faith, which I once endeavoured to suppress:

But as for those who were men of real eminency, how considerable soever they were heretofore, it does not any ways affect me; God accepts not the person of any man: for they who were of note, in conference with me, had nothing new to add.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.

Now if it be a sin to seek for justification by Christ, then is Christ the minister of sin, which cannot be.

I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if justification be by the law, Christ died to no purpose.

this one thing I desire to know of you, did you receive the spirit by the works of the law, or by the gospel preach'd to you?

so hence ye know, that it is they who believe who are the children of Abraham.

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

now the law does not justify by FAITH, but says, "he that DOES these things shall live by them."

now to Abraham and his offspring were the promises made. he does not say, "to offsprings," as if he spoke of many; but as speaking of one, "and to thy offspring," which means Christ.

now if the right to the inheritance be from the law, it is no longer founded upon the promise; altho' God made a donation of it to Abraham by promise.

now a mediator supposes two parties, of which God is but one.

Is the law then opposite to the promises? by no means. for if there had been a law given, which could have given life, certainly justification should have been by the law.

but now faith being come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.

there is now no distinction of Jew or Greek, of bond or free, of male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, is in a state of servitude, tho' he is to be lord of all;

so that thou art no longer a bond servant, but a son: and if a son, then an heir of God thro' Christ.

When you did not know God, you did service to those, who in reality are no Gods; but now that you know God,

It is not you that have done me any injury: tho' you knew through what infirmity of the flesh I heretofore preached the gospel to you,

am I now become your enemy in continuing to tell you the truth?

this Agar answers to the Jerusalem now in being, for she is in servitude with her children:

Now we, my brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise.

but as then, he that was born in the ordinary course of nature, persecuted him, who was born by an extraordinary power; even so it is now.

take notice, 'tis I Paul declare it to you, that if you are circumcised, Christ shall be of no advantage to you.

Christ is of no use to you, whoever of you seek to be justified by the law; you have lost all interest in the gospel-dispensation.

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,

drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

against such there is no law.

now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

for in the dispensation of Jesus Christ, neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but the new creation.

from henceforth let no man give me trouble; for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.