Study Desk

Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong-not that we will appear to have stood the test, but that you will do what is right, even if we appear to have failed.

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

In fact, we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is for your perfection.

Paul, an apostle-sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead-

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a divine curse!

But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who came before me, but I went into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.

But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.

I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.

But as for the highly esteemed, whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism. For those men added nothing to my message.

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

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.

But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, "and to seeds," meaning many, but "and to your seed," meaning One, who is Christ.

For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

A mediator is unnecessary, however, if there is only one party; but God is one.

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.

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

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