Study Desk

This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I am present I will not need to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.

As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you embraced, let him be under a divine curse!

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John-those reputed to be pillars-gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.

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

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

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

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?

Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

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

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

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

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to cancel the promise.

But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.

Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you will be zealous for them.

You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?