People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
WALK IN LOVE WALK AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT
Do not participate in the worthless and unproductive deeds of darkness, but instead expose them [by exemplifying personal integrity, moral courage, and godly character];
for it is disgraceful even to mention the things that such people practice in secret.
FINAL WARNING AND BENEDICTION
For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation a new Birth, a New Life in Jesus Christ.
BEAR ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS WITH LOVE/b>
So then, while we have the opportunity, let us do good to all people and especially to those of the household of faith.
KEEP IN STEP WITH THE SPIRIT
If you are guided and led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the Law.
CHRIST HAS SET US FREE HOLD FAST YOUR FREEDOM
I wish that those who are troubling you [by teaching that circumcision is necessary for salvation] would even [go all the way and] castrate themselves!
EXAMPLE OF HAGAR AND SARAH
Hagar also stands for the Judaizers, whose headquarters were at Jerusalem, while their emissaries everywhere dogged the Apostle’s movements.
PAUL’S CONCERN FOR THE GALATIANS
So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
These men [the Judaizers] eagerly seek you [to entrap you with honeyed words and attention, to win you over to their philosophy], not honorably [for their purpose is not honorable or worthy of consideration]. They want to isolate you [from us who oppose them] so that you will seek them.
LIVE AS SONS AND HEIRS, NOT AS BONDMEN
Galatians I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored [to the point of exhaustion] over you in vain.
THE LAW AND THE PROMISE THE LAW LEADS TO CHRIST
Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a system of law had been given which could impart life, then righteousness (right standing with God) would actually have been based on law.
THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE BY FAITH
Now it is clear that no one is justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing] before God by the Law, for “THE RIGHTEOUS (the just, the upright) SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.