And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,

I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law -- then Christ died in vain.

Brethren, as a man I say it, even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,

and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

the law, then, is against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,