For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught [it], but [I received it] through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,

and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, [because] I was a far more zealous adherent of the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

But when the one who set me apart from my mother's womb and called [me] by his grace was pleased

but I was unknown {in person} to the churches of Judea [that are] in Christ,

and they were only hearing, "The one formerly persecuting us is now proclaiming the faith that formerly he was attempting to destroy,"

Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.

But not even Titus [who was] with me, [although] he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

Now [this was] because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us,

(for the one who was at work through Peter for [his] apostleship to the circumcision was at work also through me for the Gentiles),

[They asked] only that we should remember the poor, the very thing I was also eager to do.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed [him] to his face, because he was condemned.

For before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, [because he] was afraid of those [who were] of the circumcision,

and the rest of the Jews also joined in [this] hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with them in [their] hypocrisy.

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed [as] having been crucified?

Have you suffered so many [things] for nothing--if indeed also [it was] for nothing?

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,

Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the descendant should come to whom it had been promised, having been ordered through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

But before faith came, we were detained under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.

And you did not despise or disdain [what was] a trial for you in my flesh, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus.

But the one by the female slave was born according to human descent, and the one by the free woman through the promise,