What I have just said I repeat--if any one is preaching to you a Good News other than that which you originally received, let him be accursed.

But when He who set me apart even from my birth, and called me by His grace,

In making these assertions I am speaking the truth, as in the sight of God.

They only heard it said, "He who was once our persecutor is now telling the Good News of the faith of which he formerly made havoc."

As soon as I saw that they were not walking uprightly in the spirit of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, though you are a Jew, live as a Gentile does, and not as a Jew, how can you make the Gentiles follow Jewish customs?

Brethren, even a covenant made by a man--to borrow an illustration from daily life--when once formally sanctioned is not liable to be set aside or added to.

(Now the promises were given to Abraham and to his seed. God did not say 'and to seeds,' as if speaking of many, but 'and to your seed,' since He spoke of only one--and this is Christ.)

Why then was the Law given? It was imposed later on for the sake of defining sin, until the seed should come to whom God had made the promise; and its details were laid down by a mediator with the help of angels.