for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being,

But to the churches of Christ in Judea I was personally unknown;

only they used to hear it said, "He who was once persecuting us is now preaching the gospel of the very faith which he once tried to ruin."

But although Titus, my companion, was a Greek, they did not compel even him to be circumcised.

They stipulated only that we should remember the poor, which very thing indeed I was quite eager to do.

For until certain men came from James he used to eat with the Gentile Christians, but when they came, he began to draw back and to separate himself, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

And the rest of the Jewish Christians also dissimulated with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?"

Did you have such experience to no purpose??f indeed it was really to no purpose?

Even as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness?

Now it was to Abraham that the promises were spoken, and to his offspring. God did not say, "offsprings" as if speaking of many, but "and to your offspring," as of one; and this is Christ.

To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law,

on the contrary, you know that although it was illness which brought about my preaching the gospel to you at my first visit,

and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.