I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

Answer me this one question, "Is it on the ground of your obedience to the Law that you received the Spirit, or is it because, when you heard, you believed?"

He who gives you His Spirit and works miracles among you--does He do so on the ground of your obedience to the Law, or is it the result of your having heard and believed:

for if by law be the inheritance, it is no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant it.

But the Scripture describes all mankind as the prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing might on the ground of faith in Jesus Christ be given to those who have faith.

But let each one prove his own work, and then will he have his ground for boasting in himself alone, and not in comparison with another;

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.