It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

Now even though it were myself or some angel from heaven, whoever preaches a gospel that contradicts the gospel I preached to you, God's curse be on him!

I have said it before and I now repeat it: whoever preaches a gospel to you that contradicts the gospel you have already received, God's curse be on him!

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

No, brothers, I tell you the gospel that I preach is not a human affair;

and when he chose to reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him to the Gentiles, instead of consulting with any human being,

they merely heard that 'our former persecutor is now preaching the faith he once harried,'

(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 we refused to yield for a single instant to their claims; we were determined that the truth of the gospel should hold good for you.

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

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.

If it is discovered that in our quest for justification in Christ we are 'sinners' as well as the Gentiles, does that make Christ an agent of sin? Never!

For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

Have you had all that experience for nothing (if it has really gone for nothing)?

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

Well then, you see that the real sons of Abraham are those who rely on faith.

So that those who rely on faith are blessed along with believing Abraham.

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

that the blessing of Abraham might reach the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promised Spirit.

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.

but Scripture has consigned all without exception to the custody of sin, in order that the promise due to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who have faith.

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;

the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

to ransom those who were under the Law, that we might get our sonship.

It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!'

but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

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

Now, what has become of all that? (I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given me them.)

These men make much of you ??yes, but for dishonest ends; they want to debar you from us, so that you may make much of them.

would that I could be with you at this moment, and alter my tone, for I am at my wits' end about you!

Surely it is written in the Law that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-woman and one by the free-woman;

Now this is an allegory. The women are two covenants. One comes from mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude; that is Hagar,

I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law.

for it is by faith that 'we' wait in the Spirit for the righteousness we hope for;

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

That sort of suasion does not come from Him who called you!

I feel persuaded in the Lord that you will not go wrong. But he who unsettles you will have to meet his doom, no matter who he is.

O that those who are upsetting you would get themselves castrated!

For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.

envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.