Now as to what I am writing to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

For if I again build up what I pulled down, I make myself a transgressor.

Brethren, I speak according to what is practised among men; no one sets aside even a human covenant, or makes additions to it, after it has been ratified.

And what I mean is this; that a covenant that was before ratified by God, the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, cannot annul, so as to make void the promise;

To what end then was the Law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise belongeth, having been ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

But it is good to be an object of zeal in what is good always, and not only when I am present with you.

But what saith the scripture? "Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman."

See in what large letters I have written to you with my own hand.