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Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less?

Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not so that people will see that we have stood the test but so that you will do what is right even though we may seem to have failed.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God's curse!

to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being.

We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.

The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

"For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.

Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain?

So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?

So also Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case.

But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.