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but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, for my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.2 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Peter 4:14;">[xr]

Here I am ready to visit you for a third time, and I will not bother you for help. I do not want your things but you. Children should not have to supportto save up for">[fn] their parents, but parents their children.Acts 20:33; 1 Corinthians 4:14-15; 10:33; 2 Corinthians 13:1;">[xr]

since you want proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you but is making his power felt among you.Matthew 10:20; 1 Corinthians 5:4; 9:2; 2 Corinthians 2:10;">[xr]

Though he was crucified in weakness, he lives by God's power. We are weak with him, but by God's power we will live for you.Romans 6:4; 2 Corinthians 10:3-4; Philippians 2:7-8; 1 Peter 3:18;">[xr]

We pray to God that you will not do anything wrong - not to show that we have not failed the test, but so that you may do what is right, even if we seem to have failed.2 Corinthians 6:9;">[xr]

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

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But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to youto you">[fn] a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that person be condemned!1 Corinthians 16:22;">[xr]

For I did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it, but I received itI received it">[fn] through a revelation of Jesus Christ.1 Corinthians 15:1,3; Galatians 1:1; Ephesians 3:3;">[xr]

But when God, who set me apart before I was born and who called me by his grace, was pleasedIsaiah 49:1,5; Jeremiah 1:5; Acts 9:15; 13:2; 22:14-15; Romans 1:1;">[xr]

But I did not see any other apostle except James, the Lord's brother.Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3; 1 Corinthians 9:5;">[xr]

But I was unknown by sight to the churches of Christ in Judea.Romans 16:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:14;">[xr]

But not even Titus, who was with me, was forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

But we did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you.Galatians 2:14; 3:1; 4:16;">[xr]

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly wrong.was self-condemned">[fn]Acts 15:35;">[xr]

For until some men came from James, he was in the habit of eating with the Gentiles, but after they came he drew back and would not associate himself with them, being afraid of the circumcision party.Acts 10:28; 11:3;">[xr]

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "Though you are a Jew, you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the Gentiles must live like Jews?"Acts 10:28; 11:3; Galatians 2:5; 1 Timothy 5:20;">[xr]

yet we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ.by faith in Jesus Christ">[fn] We, too, have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by the faith of Christby faith in Christ">[fn] and not by the works of the law, for no human beingno flesh">[fn] will be justified by the works of the law.Psalm 143:2; Acts 13:38-39; Romans 1:17; 8:3; Galatians 3:11,24; Hebrews 7:18-19;">[xr]

I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God,by faith in the Son of God">[fn] who loved me and gave himself for me.Romans 6:6; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Galatians 1:4; 5:24; 6:14; Ephesians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:10; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 4:2;">[xr]

But the law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, "The person who keeps the commandmentswho does them">[fn] will have life in them."Leviticus 18:5">[fn]Leviticus 18:5; Nehemiah 9:29; Ezekiel 20:11; Romans 4:4-5; 10:5-6; 11:6;">[xr]