I am astonished that you are so soon turning away from him that called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel:

As we said before, so even now I say again, if any one preaches to you any other gospel than that which you have received, let him be accursed.

But when God, who chose me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, was pleased

to reveal his Sou in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I at once declined all conference with flesh and blood:

but of the apostles I saw no other, but James the brother of the Lord.

And the other Jews, also, acted hypocritically with him, so that even Barnabas was led away by their hypocrisy.

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter, before them all: If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of the Gentiles, and not after the manner of the Jews, why do you compel the Gen tiles to observe Jewish customs?

Are you so thoughtless? After having begun in Spirit, do you make an end in flesh?

Have you suffered so many things in vain? if, indeed, it be in vain.

So, then, those who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

Brethren, I speak of things common among men: No one sets a covenant aside, or enjoins any thing additional after it is confirmed, though it be a man's covenant.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring; he does not say: And to offsprings, as if he spoke of many; but as of one, And to your offspring, which is Christ.

And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.

So, then, the law was our pedagogue that led us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

And if you are Christ s, then you are Abraham's posterity, and heirs according to the promise.

But I say, that the heir, as long as he is a minor, differs in no respect from a servant, though he is owner of all;

So, also, we, when we were minors, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.

So, then, you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, an heir also of God, through Christ.

But as then, he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was born ac cording to the Spirit, so even now.

Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would.

Now those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Bear with the weaknesses of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

You see how long a letter I have written to you with my own hand.