Am I your enemy to-day, because I have been honest with you?
You were doing splendidly. Who was it that prevented you from obeying the Truth?
It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me.
But we refused to yield for a single instant to their claims; we were determined that the truth of the gospel should hold good for you.
the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.
But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" —
Now, what has become of all that? (I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given me them.)
These men make much of you — yes, but for dishonest ends; they want to debar you from us, so that you may make much of them.