which is nothing else, but that there be some which trouble you, and intend to pervert the gospel of Christ.

This only would I learn of you: Received ye the spirit by the deeds of the law? Or else by preaching of the faith?

To take an illustration from human life, my brothers. Once a man's will is ratified, no one else annuls it or adds a codicil to it.

Yes, I declare to every person who attempts to require circumcision [as a means of gaining acceptance with God], that he must also obey everything else required by the law of Moses.

A little bit of yeast permeates the whole batch of dough [i.e., a few people can influence everyone else to do the wrong thing in this matter].

I, am persuaded regarding you, in the Lord - that, for nothing else, ye will have any regard; but, he that is troubling you, shall bear the sentence, - whosoever he may be.

But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in someone else.