who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father;

But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that person be condemned!

I repeat what I have already said: If any person preaches to you a "gospel" other than what you have already received [from us apostles], he should be cut off from God's [salvation].

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

for to declare his son by me, that I should preach him among the heathen: Immediately I commended not of the matter with flesh and blood,

Yea, and I went up by revelation, and commended with them of the gospel, which I preach among the gentiles - but between ourselves with them which were counted chief, lest it should have been thought that I should run, or had run in vain.

But they did not insist that even my companion Titus, although he was a Greek, should be circumcised,

But we refused to yield for a single instant to their claims; we were determined that the truth of the gospel should hold good for you.

but on the contrary seeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter was of the circumcision,??8 for he that operated in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision, operated also in me for the gentiles,??9 and knowing the grace given me, James and Cephas and John, who were manifest pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcision;

and therefore when James, Cephas, and John, which seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the righthands, and agreed with us that we should preach among the heathen, and they among the Jews:

warning only that we should remember the poor, which thing also I was diligent to do.

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the good news, I said to Cephas, right before them all, "If you live like a heathen, and not like a Jew, though you are a Jew yourself, why should you try to make the heathen live like Jews?"

For if seeking to be justified by Christ, we also ourselves should be found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? God forbid.

For if I [or anyone else should] rebuild [through word or by practice] what I once tore down [the belief that observing the Law is essential for salvation], I prove myself to be a transgressor.

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I should live unto God.

O foolish Galatians: who hath bewitched you, that ye should not believe the truth, to whom Jesus Christ was described before the eyes, and among you crucified?

You should know, then, that people who have faith are [truly] God's children.

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Then what about the law? It was added later on to increase transgressions, until the descendant to whom the promise was made should come, enacted through the agency of angels in the person of an intermediary.

Is the law, then, against the promise of God? God forbid. Howbeit, if there had been a law given which could have given life: then no doubt righteousness should have come by the law.

But the scripture concluded all things under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ should be given unto them that believe.

Before that faith came, we were kept and shut up under the law, unto the faith which should afterward be declared.

I am afraid of you - lest by any means, in vain, I should have toiled for you!

They are jealous over you amiss. Yea they intend to exclude you, that ye should be fervent to them ward.

but it is just you should cultivate my affection for you upon all proper occasions, and not only when I am present with you.

My children, for whom I again travail until Christ should be formed in you,

till Christ be formed in you, I should be glad to be present with you even now, and to change my voice; for I am in doubt about you.

For it is written [Isa. 40:1], "[Woman] you should be happy that you have not had children. Cry over your inability to experience the pain of childbirth. For the deserted woman has had more children than the one with a husband."

Ye did run well. Who was a let unto you, that ye should not obey the truth?

For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through love serve and seek the best for one another.

For the whole law of Moses can be fulfilled by [obeying this] one requirement [Lev. 19:18]: "You should love your neighbor the way you love yourself."

For, the flesh, coveted against the Spirit, but, the Spirit, against the flesh, - for, these, unto one another, are opposed, lest, whatsoever things ye chance to desire, these, ye should be doing!

If we live in Spirit, we should also march in Spirit.

We should avoid foolish pride as well as provoking or envying one another.

Brothers, if a person is caught doing something wrong, those of you who are spiritual should restore that person gently. Watch out for yourself so that you are not tempted as well.

Everyone should test his own work until it stands the test, and then he will have ground for boasting with reference to himself alone, and not with reference to someone else.

For each person should shoulder the responsibility of his own work load.

Those who are taught the truth should share all their goods with the man who teaches them.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap.

But we should not lose heart in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.

So then, we should do the right thing toward every person whenever we have the opportunity, and especially toward people who are part of God's family [i.e., those making up "the faith"].

As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

God forbid that I should rejoice but in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified as touching me, and I as concerning the world.

From now on no one should harass me [about such matters] for I carry around on my body the scars [left there in my service] for Christ.