But when God, who set me apart before I was born and who called me by his grace, was pleased

So when James, Cephas, and John (who were reputed to be leaders) recognized the grace that had been given me, they gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly wrong.

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "Though you are a Jew, you have been living like a gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the gentiles must live like Jews?"

Because the Scripture saw ahead of time that God would justify the gentiles by faith, it announced the gospel to Abraham beforehand when it said, "Through you all nations will be blessed."

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,

However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.

(Now it is always good to be devoted to a good cause, even when I am not with you.)

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is only fooling himself.