For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations through faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all nations be blessed."

Is the Law then against the promises of God? Let it not be said! For if a law had been given which could have given life, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.

What then was your blessedness? For I bear you record that, if you were able, plucking out your eyes, you would have given them to me.