What we have told you in the past I am now telling you again: If anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that person be condemned!

Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant.

The only thing they kept hearing was this: "The man who used to persecute us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy!"

Now those who were reputed to be important added nothing to my message. (What sort of people they were makes no difference to me, since God pays no attention to outward appearances.)

Now if we, while trying to be justified by the Messiah, have been found to be sinners, does that mean that the Messiah is serving the interests of sin? Of course not!

I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Are you so foolish? Having started out with the Spirit, are you now ending up with the flesh?

Now it is obvious that no one is justified in the sight of God by the Law, because "The righteous will live by faith."

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. It doesn't say "descendants," referring to many, but "your descendant," referring to one person, who is the Messiah.

Now a mediator involves more than one party, but God is one.

Now before faith came about, we were held in custody and confined under the Law in preparation for the faith that was to be revealed.

But now that faith has come about, we are no longer under a guardian.

Now what I am saying is this: As long as an heir is a child, he is no better off than a slave, even though he owns everything.

Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts to cry out, "Abba! Father!"

But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?

So have I now become your enemy for telling you the truth?

(Now it is always good to be devoted to a good cause, even when I am not with you.)

Indeed, I wish I were with you right now so that I could change the tone of my voice, because I am completely baffled by you!

Now the slave woman's son was conceived through human means, while the free woman's son was conceived through divine promise.

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery along with her children.

But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.

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

envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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

Now may peace be on all those who live by this principle, and may mercy be on the Israel of God.