grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

I am astonished you are hastily shifting like this, deserting Him who called you by Christ's grace and going over to another gospel.

But the God who had set me apart from my very birth called me by his grace,

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.

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

You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

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!

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.