Galatians 1 - 3
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Paul, an a apostle - b not from men nor through man, but c through Jesus Christ and God the Father, d who raised him from the dead -
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and all e the brothers who are with me, To f the churches of Galatia:
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g Grace to you and peace h from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
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i who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present j evil age, according to the will of k our God and Father,
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to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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I am astonished that you are l so quickly deserting m him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to n a different gospel -
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o not that there is another one, but p there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
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But even if we or q an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, r let him be accursed.
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As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, r let him be accursed.
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For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying s to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a t servant of Christ.
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For u I would have you know, brothers, that v the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.
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w For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it x through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
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For you have heard of y my former life in Judaism, how z I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.
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And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely a zealous was I for b the traditions of my fathers.
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But when he c who had set me apart d before I was born, and who e called me by his grace,
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was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order f that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
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nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
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Then g after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days.
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But I saw none of the other apostles except James h the Lord's brother.
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(In what I am writing to you, i before God, I do not lie!)
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j Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
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And I was still unknown in person to k the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
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They only were hearing it said, "He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
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And they glorified God because of me.
Galatians 2
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Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
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I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those l who seemed influential) the gospel that m I proclaim among the Gentiles, n in order to make sure I was not running or had not o run in vain.
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But even Titus, who was with me, p was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.
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q Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who r slipped in to spy out s our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, t so that they might bring us into slavery -
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to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that u the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
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And from those v who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; w God shows no partiality) - those, I say, who seemed influential x added nothing to me.
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On the contrary, when they saw that I had been y entrusted with z the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised
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(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
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and when James and Cephas and John, v who seemed to be a pillars, perceived the b grace that was given to me, they c gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
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Only, they asked us to remember the poor, d the very thing I was eager to do.
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But e when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him f to his face, because he stood condemned.
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For before certain men came from James, g he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing h the circumcision party.
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And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
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But when I saw that their i conduct was not in step with j the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas k before them all, "If you, though a Jew, l live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?"
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We ourselves are Jews by birth and not m Gentile sinners;
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yet we know that n a person is not justified by works of the law o but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, p because by works of the law no one will be justified.
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But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found q to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
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For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
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For through the law I r died to the law, so that I might s live to God.
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I have been t crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives u in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, v who loved me and w gave himself for me.
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I do not nullify the grace of God, for x if righteousness were through the law, y then Christ died for no purpose.
Galatians 3
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O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? z It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly a portrayed as crucified.
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Let me ask you only this: b Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by c hearing with faith?
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Are you so foolish? d Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
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e Did you suffer so many things in vain - if indeed it was in vain?
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Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and f works miracles among you do so g by works of the law, or by hearing with faith -
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just as h Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
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Know then that it is i those of faith who are j the sons of Abraham.
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And the Scripture, foreseeing that k God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, l "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
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So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
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For all who rely on works of the law are m under a curse; for it is written, n "Cursed be everyone who does not o abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them."
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Now it is evident that p no one is justified before God by the law, for q "The righteous shall live by faith."
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But the law is not of faith, rather r "The one who does them shall live by them."
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Christ s redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, t "Cursed is everyone who is hanged u on a tree" -
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so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might v come to the Gentiles, so that w we might receive x the promised Spirit through faith.
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y To give a human example, brothers: z even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.
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Now a the promises were made b to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, c "And to your offspring," who is Christ.
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This is what I mean: the law, which came d 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as e to make the promise void.
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For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but f God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
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Why then the law? g It was added because of transgressions, h until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was i put in place through angels j by an intermediary.
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Now k an intermediary implies more than one, but l God is one.
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Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For m if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
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But the Scripture n imprisoned everything under sin, so that o the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given p to those who believe.
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Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, q imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.
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So then, r the law was our s guardian until Christ came, t in order that we might be justified by faith.
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But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,
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for in Christ Jesus u you are all sons of God, through faith.
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For as many of you as v were baptized w into Christ have x put on Christ.
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y There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, z there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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And a if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, b heirs according to promise.
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2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
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Galatians 1:11 - 12
For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.
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Acts 9:6
But rise and enter the city, and you will be to...
Acts 20:24
But I do not account my life of any value nor a...
Acts 22:10
And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lo...
Acts 22:15
For you will be a witness for him to everyone o...
Acts 22:21
And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far...
Acts 26:16
But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have a...
1 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of ...
Titus 1:3
And at the proper time manifested in his word t...
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Acts 2:24
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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Philippians 4:21
Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
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Acts 16:6
And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
1 Corinthians 16:1
Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
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Romans 1:7
To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:3
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Timothy 1:2
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Romans 4:25
Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures.
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Ephesians 2:2
In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience -
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Philippians 4:20
To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:11
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
1 Thessalonians 3:13
So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
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Galatians 4:13
You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first.
Acts 16:6
And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
Acts 18:23
After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
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Galatians 5:8
This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
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2 Corinthians 11:4
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
1 Timothy 1:3
As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine.
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Acts 4:12
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
1 Corinthians 3:11
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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Galatians 5:10
I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
Acts 15:24
Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
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2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
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Romans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
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Galatians 1:8
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
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1 Thessalonians 2:4
But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Romans 2:29
But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
1 Corinthians 10:33
Just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
Ephesians 6:6
Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.
Colossians 3:22
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
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Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.
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1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand.
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Romans 2:16
On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
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Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle - not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead -
1 Corinthians 11:23
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread.
1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures.
Acts 22:14
And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth.
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Galatians 1:16
Was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.
1 Corinthians 2:10
These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
2 Corinthians 12:1
I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
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Acts 26:4
My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
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Acts 8:3
But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
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Philippians 3:6
As to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
Acts 21:20
And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law.
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Jeremiah 9:14
But have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.
2 Timothy 1:3
I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
Matthew 15:2
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
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Acts 13:2
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.
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Isaiah 49:1
Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.
Isaiah 49:5
And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him - for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength -
Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Luke 1:15
For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
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Galatians 1:6
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -
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Galatians 2:9
And when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
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Acts 9:22 - 23
But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.
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Matthew 12:46
While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him.
Acts 12:17
But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Tell these things to James and to the brothers." Then he departed and went to another place.
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Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you
Romans 9:1
I am speaking the truth in Christ - I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit -
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Acts 9:30
And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
Acts 11:25 - 26
So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul.
Acts 13:1
Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
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1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.
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Galatians 2:6
And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) - those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.
Galatians 2:9
And when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
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1 Timothy 3:16
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
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Galatians 4:11
I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.
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Philippians 2:16
Holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
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Acts 16:3
Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
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Acts 15:24
Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions.
2 Corinthians 11:26
On frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers.
Galatians 5:12
I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
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2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
Jude 1:4
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Galatians 5:1
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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Galatians 4:3
In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
Galatians 4:24 - 25
Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
2 Corinthians 11:20
For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.
Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!
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Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?
Galatians 4:16
Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Galatians 5:7
You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Titus 1:14
Not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
2 John 1:1
The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth.
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Galatians 2:2
I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
Galatians 2:9
And when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
Galatians 6:3
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Acts 5:36
For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
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2 Corinthians 11:5
Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
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1 Thessalonians 2:4
But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
1 Timothy 1:11
In accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.
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Galatians 1:16
Was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
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Galatians 2:6
And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) - those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.
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Jeremiah 1:18
And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
Revelation 3:12
The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
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Romans 1:5
Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations.
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2 Peter 3:15
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.
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Acts 24:17
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
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Acts 15:1
But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.
Acts 15:35
But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
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Job 21:31
Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?
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Acts 11:3
"You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them."
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?
Acts 10:28
And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them.
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Acts 11:2
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying.
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Hebrews 12:13
And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
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Galatians 2:5
To them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
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1 Timothy 5:20
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.
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Galatians 2:12
For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.
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Galatians 2:17
But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Ephesians 2:12
Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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Galatians 3:11
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith.
Acts 13:39
And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
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Romans 9:30
What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith.
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Romans 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Psalms 143:2
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
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Galatians 2:15
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners.
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Romans 6:2
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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Luke 20:38
Now he is not God of the dead, but of the livin...
Romans 6:11
So you also must consider yourselves dead to si...
Romans 14:7 - 8
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us...
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all, that those who live might ...
1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who died for us so that whether we are awake or...
Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who thr...
1 Peter 4:2
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Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Romans 6:6
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
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John 17:23
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
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Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
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Galatians 3:21
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Hebrews 7:11
Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?
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Galatians 5:4
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
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Numbers 21:9
So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
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1 Corinthians 1:23
But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.
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Galatians 3:14
So that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Ephesians 1:13
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit.
Acts 15:8
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us.
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Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
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Philippians 1:6
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
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1 Corinthians 15:2
And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you - unless you believed in vain.
Hebrews 10:35
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
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1 Corinthians 12:10
To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
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Galatians 3:2
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
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Genesis 15:6
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Romans 4:21 - 22
Fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
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Genesis 15:6
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
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Galatians 3:9
So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
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Luke 19:9
And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
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Romans 3:30
Since God is one - who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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Galatians 5:4
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Romans 4:15
For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
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Deuteronomy 27:26
"'Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Jeremiah 11:3
You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant
Ezekiel 18:4
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.
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Matthew 5:19
Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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Deuteronomy 27:26
"'Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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Galatians 2:16
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
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Romans 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith.
Hebrews 10:38
But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
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Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
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Leviticus 18:5
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
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Leviticus 18:5
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
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Galatians 4:5
To redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Revelation 22:3
No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
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Deuteronomy 21:23
His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
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Acts 5:30
The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
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Deuteronomy 21:23
His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
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Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Romans 4:16
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Galatians 3:2
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
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Acts 2:33
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of Go...
Isaiah 32:15
Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high...
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and ...
Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I wil...
John 7:39
Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those w...
Ephesians 1:13
In him you also, when you heard the word of tru...
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Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? ( I speak in a human way.)
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Hebrews 9:17
For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.
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Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 4:16
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Luke 1:55
As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Acts 13:32
And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers.
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Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Exodus 12:40 - 41
The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.
Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
Acts 7:6
And God spoke to this effect - that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
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Romans 4:14
For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.
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Hebrews 6:13 - 14
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself.
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Romans 4:15
For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
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Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.
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Acts 7:53
You who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.
Hebrews 2:2
For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution.
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Exodus 20:19
And said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we wil...
Exodus 20:21 - 22
The people stood far off, while Moses drew near...
Deuteronomy 5:5
While I stood between the Lord and you at that ...
Deuteronomy 5:22 - 23
These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly...
Deuteronomy 5:27
Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will...
Deuteronomy 5:31
But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you ...
Acts 7:38
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1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 8:6
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
Hebrews 9:15
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 12:24
And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Hebrews 6:17
So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath.
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Romans 3:30
Since God is one - who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
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Galatians 2:21
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
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Romans 11:32
For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
Romans 3:9
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin.
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Romans 4:16
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
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Acts 10:43
To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.
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1 Peter 1:5
Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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Matthew 5:17
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Romans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Colossians 2:17
These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Hebrews 9:9 - 10
(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper.
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1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
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Galatians 3:11
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith.
Galatians 2:16
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
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Galatians 4:5 - 6
To redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
Romans 8:14 - 16
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
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Romans 6:3
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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Acts 8:16
For he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
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Galatians 3:14
So that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Romans 3:30
Since God is one - who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
1 Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free - and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 11:11
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman.
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Romans 9:7
And not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
1 Corinthians 3:23
And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
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Galatians 4:1
I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child,...
Galatians 4:7
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if...
Romans 8:17
And if children, then heirs - heirs of God and ...
Ephesians 3:6
This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow he...
Galatians 4:28
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of ...
2 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of...
Titus 1:2
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Hebrews 9:15
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