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And be it [so], I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;

since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;

for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;

Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be!

for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught [it], but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,

but not even Titus, who [is] with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised --

but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with [that] of the circumcision,

But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

and the law is not by faith, but -- `The man who did them shall live in them.'

and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

for if by law [be] the inheritance, [it is] no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant [it].

but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.

but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,

so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus;