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.

You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion??ow furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,

and how I surpassed many of my own age among my people in my devotion to Judaism, I was so fanatically devoted to what my forefathers had handed down.

I was still personally unknown to the Christian churches of Judea;

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went. I laid before them the good news that I preach to the heathen, presenting it privately to the leaders, for fear my efforts might be or might have been futile.

But they did not insist that even my companion Titus, although he was a Greek, should be circumcised,

The other Jewish Christians followed his example in concealing their real views, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their pose.

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

If our inheritance rests on the Law, it has nothing to do with the promise. Yet it was as a promise that God bestowed it upon Abraham.

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;

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

I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.

though you know that it was because of an illness that I preached the good news to you that first time;

But the child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfilment of the promise.