was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not counsel with flesh and blood,

Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me

for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship to the heathen --

and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by their dissimulation.

because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God.

It is evident, too, that no one can find acceptance with God simply by obeying the Law, because "the righteous shall live by faith,"

Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God's grace.

I beg you, brothers, take my point of view, just as I took yours. You did me no injustice then.

And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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.

For if anyone thinks he is something [special] when [in fact] he is nothing [special except in his own eyes], he deceives himself.