for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.

but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with that of the circumcision,

and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --

and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.

Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand;