⁵ To whom we gave way not even for an hour; so that the true words of the good news might still be with you.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

¹ O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?

² Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

¹⁶ So then am I no longer your friend, because I give you true words?

⁵ Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

² And after Paul and Barnabas had had no little argument and discussion with them, the brothers made a decision to send Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem about this question.

¹³ In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,

⁴ I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

⁵ For though I am not present in the flesh, still I am with you in the spirit, seeing with joy your order, and your unchanging faith in Christ.

⁶ As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

⁷ Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

⁸ Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

¹³ And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

³ My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.