No Other Gospel

⁶ I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from Him who called^(A) you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— ⁷ not that there is another gospel,^(B) but there are some^(C) who are troubling you and want to change the good news^[a] about the Messiah. ⁸ But even if we or an angel^(D) from heaven should preach to you a gospel other than what we have preached to you,^(E) a curse be on him!^{[b] 9} As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received,^(F) a curse be on him!

¹⁰ For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God?^(G) Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

Paul Defends His Apostleship

¹¹ Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not based on human thought.^{[c] 12} For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation^(H) from Jesus Christ.^(I)

Freedom from the Law

¹¹ But when Cephas^[a] came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned.^{[b] 12} For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party. ¹³ Then the rest of the Jews^(A) joined his hypocrisy,^(B) so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. ¹⁴ But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas^[c] in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile^(C) and not like a Jew,^(D) how can you compel Gentiles to live^(E) like Jews?”^[d]

¹⁵ We who are Jews by birth and not “Gentile sinners” ¹⁶ know that no one is justified by the works of the law^(F) but by faith in Jesus Christ.^[e] And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ^[f] and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will^[g] be justified. ¹⁷ But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ,^(G) is Christ then a promoter^[h](H) of sin? Absolutely not!^{(I) 18} If I rebuild^(J) the system^[i] I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker.^{(K) 19} For through the law I have died to the law,^(L) so that I might live for God.^(M) I have been crucified with Christ^{[j] 20} and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.^(N) The life I now live in the body,^[k] I live by faith in the Son of God,^(O) who loved^(P) me^(Q) and gave Himself^(R) for me.^(S)