who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life according to the will of God even our Father,

For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.

For I certify you, brothers, of the gospel preached by me, that it is not according to man;

for I neither received it from man nor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

For you heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism, that I greatly persecuted the church of God and destroyed it;

and was a proficient in Judaism beyond many of my age among my people, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

we did not yield to them by subjection, for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with 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;

For before some came from James he eat with the gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself; fearing those of the circumcision;

For we Jews by race and not sinners of the gentiles,

For if I build up again what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

For by a law I have died to the law, that I may live to God.

I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I do not reject the grace of God; for if rightousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

For as many as are of works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree,

And this I say; that the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot abrogate the covenant previously established by God, to make the promise of no effect.

For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by the promise. But God gave it to Abraham by the promise.

Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means. For if a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really have been by the law;

But before the faith came, we were kept shut up under the law for the faith to be revealed.

For you are all children of God by the faith in Jesus Christ;

for as many of you as are baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I beseech you, brothers, be as I am, for I am as you [ought to be]. You did not injure me;

What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have dug out your eyes and have given them to me.

They are zealous for you, but not well, but they wish to exclude you that you may be zealous for them.

It is good to be zealous for a good object always, and not only when I am present with you.

I wish to be present with you now and change my voice with you, for I am in doubt of you.

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by a servant woman, and the other by a free woman.

But he by the servant woman was born of the flesh, and he by the free woman, by the promise.

These things are allegorical, for those [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude, which is Hagar;

for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; and the present Jerusalem answers to her, for she is in servitude with her children.

But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us;

for it is written, Rejoice, barren woman, that did not bear, break forth and cry, woman that had no pain, for the children of the desolate are more numerous than those of her who had a husband.

But what says the Scripture? Cast out the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant woman shall not be an heir, with the son of the free.

Wherefore, brothers, we are not children of the servant woman, but of the free.

STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to perform the whole law.

For we wait in spirit for the hope of righteousness, by faith.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.

For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another.

For all the law is fully contained in one precept; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.

For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,

For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

for every one shall bear his own burden.

Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what a man sows, that shall he also reap;

for he that sows for his flesh, shall of the flesh reap destruction; but he that sows for the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life eternal.

Let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

Those who wish to make a fair appearance in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For the circumcised themselves do not keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.

But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I to the world.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Finally, let no man trouble me; for I bear in my body the marks of Jesus.