As we have said before, so I say again now, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be accursed!

But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through his grace, was pleased

I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea which were in Christ;

they only heard it said, "He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."

I went up because of a revelation; and I set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who were of reputation, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of them all, "If you, being a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ.

Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

but he is under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father.

It was for freedom that Christ has set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.