But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that person be condemned!

What we have told you in the past I am now telling you again: If anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that person be condemned!

(Before God, what I'm writing to you is the truth.)

So they kept glorifying God for what had happened to me.

Now those who were reputed to be important added nothing to my message. (What sort of people they were makes no difference to me, since God pays no attention to outward appearances.)

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

I do not misapply God's grace, for if righteousness comes about by doing what the Law requires, then the Messiah died for nothing.

I want to learn only one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the actions of the Law or by believing what you heard?

Does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you because you do the actions of the Law or because you believe what you heard?

This is what I mean: The Law that came 430 years later did not cancel the covenant that God ratified previously. The promise was never nullified.

But the Scripture has captured everything by means of sin's net, so that what was promised by the faithfulness of the Messiah might be granted to those who believe.

Now what I am saying is this: As long as an heir is a child, he is no better off than a slave, even though he owns everything.

So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir because of what God did.

What, then, happened to your positive attitude? For I testify that if it had been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Tell me, those of you who want to live under the Law: Are you really listening to what the Law says?

But what does the Scripture say? "Drive out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman must never share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love.

For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.

Let's not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.