Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted.

But if you bite one another and eat one another, take care, or you will be destroyed by one another.

Now the mediator or go-between [in a transaction] is not [needed] for just one party; whereas God is only one [and was the only One giving the promise to Abraham, but the Law was a contract between two, God and Israel; its validity depended on both].

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman;

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Let each one test his own work, and he will then have something to be proud of by comparing himself with himself, and not with any one else;

Moreover, that, in law, no one, is declared righteous with God, is evident, - because, The righteous one, by faith, shall live;

For it is written - Be gladdened, O barren one! that wast not giving birth, break forth and shout, thou that wast not in birth-pains, - because, more, are the children of the deserted one, than of her that had the husband.