On the contrary, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been intrusted with it for the Jews??8 for he who actuated Peter to be an apostle to the Jews also actuated me to be one to the heathen??9 and when they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, pledged Barnabas and me their co-operation, with the understanding that we should work among the heathen and they among the Jews.

Just as Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him as uprightness.

Take my position, I beg you, brothers, just as I once took yours! You took no advantage of me then;

But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly??ot just when I can be with you,

But just as then the child born in the ordinary course of nature persecuted the one born through the influence of the Spirit, so it is today.

Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows.