The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.

Are you so foolish and senseless? Having begun [your new life by faith] with the Spirit, are you now being perfected and reaching spiritual maturity by the flesh [that is, by your own works and efforts to keep the Law]?

And so the Law was our guardian until the Messiah came, so that we might be justified by faith.

Ever be bearing one another's burdens, and so be fulfilling the law of Christ.

And so when we were children, we were in bondage under the rudiments of the world.

And I was still unknown by sight to the churches which were in Christ in Judea (Jerusalem and the surrounding region);

I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!

And so, Brothers, we are not children of a slave, but of her who is free.