What I have just said I repeat--if any one is preaching to you a Good News other than that which you originally received, let him be accursed.

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?

I ask you, then, what has become of your self-congratulations? For I bear you witness that had it been possible you would have torn out your own eyes and have given them to me.

But what says the Scripture? "Send away the slave-girl and her son, for never shall the slave-girl's son share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures.

But let every man scrutinize his own conduct, and then he will find out, not with reference to another but with reference to himself, what he has to boast of.

Let us not abate our courage in doing what is right; for in due time we shall reap a reward, if we do not faint.

See in what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.