But even though I myself or an angel from heaven were to preach any gospel other than that which I did preach to you, let him be accursed.

Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

And they were giving glory to God on my account.

Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

But those in authority??hat they once were makes no difference to me; God is no respecter of persons??hose I say who were in authority had no additions to make my message.

But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, in the presence of the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all. "If you, although you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, why do you try to compel the Gentiles to become Jews?

Now it was to Abraham that the promises were spoken, and to his offspring. God did not say, "offsprings" as if speaking of many, but "and to your offspring," as of one; and this is Christ.

Before the Faith came we were perpetual prisoners under the Law, in preparation for the destined faith about to be revealed.

For all of you who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.

So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.

But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.