Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.

Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;

And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.

But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:

(Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);

When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.

And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.

I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

Even as Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.

What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.

Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.

But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?