I did not receive it from any man, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

or going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, for his own conduct condemned him.

For until some people came from James, he used to eat with the heathen, but after they came, he began to draw back and hold aloof, for fear of the party of circumcision.

Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary;

Is the Law then contrary to God's promises? By no means. For if a law had been given that could have brought life, uprightness would really have come through law.

But before this faith came, we were kept shut up under the Law, in order to obtain the faith that was to be revealed.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer in the charge of the attendant.

but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law,

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

That kind of persuasion never came from him who called you!