Personally I was quite unknown to the Christian churches of Judaea;

(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

But even my companion Titus, Greek though he was, was not obliged to be circumcised.

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

Only, we were to 'remember the poor.' I was quite eager to do that myself.

Before certain emissaries of James arrived, he ate along with the Gentile Christians; but when they arrived, he began to draw back and hold aloof, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

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.

I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

Why, it is as with Abraham, he had faith in God and that was counted to him as righteousness.

If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.

Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary

Before this faith came, we were confined by the Law and kept in custody, with the prospect of the faith that was to be revealed;

no, although it was because of an illness (you know) that I preached the gospel to you on my former visit,

and though my flesh was a trial to you, you did not scoff at me nor spurn me, you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus. You congratulated yourselves.

but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.

You were doing splendidly. Who was it that prevented you from obeying the Truth?