For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

Now from those recognized as important (what they really were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism)—they added nothing to me.

But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say “and to seeds,” as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, who is Christ.

Before this faith came, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

You were running well. Who prevented you from obeying the truth?