This only would I learn of you: Received ye the spirit by the deeds of the law? Or else by preaching of the faith?

Are ye so unwise, that after ye have begun in the spirit, ye would now end in the flesh?

For the scripture saw aforehand, that God would justify the heathen through faith, and therefore showed beforehand glad tidings unto Abraham: "In thee shall all nations be blessed."

How happy were ye then? For I bear you record that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

I would I were with you now, and could change my voice, for I stand in a doubt of you.

I would to God they were separated from you, which trouble you.

For the flesh lusteth contrary to the spirit, and the spirit contrary to the flesh. These are contrary one to the other, so that ye cannot do that which ye would.

As many as desire with outward appearance to please carnally, they constrain you to be circumcised, only because they would not suffer persecution with the cross of Christ.