Galatians 4 - 6
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I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,
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but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
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In the same way we also, when we were children, c were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
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But d when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, e born f of woman, born g under the law,
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h to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive i adoption as sons.
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And because you are sons, God has sent j the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
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So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then k an heir through God.
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Formerly, when you l did not know God, you m were enslaved to those that by nature n are not gods.
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But now that you have come to know God, or rather o to be known by God, p how can you turn back again to q the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
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r You observe days and months and seasons and years!
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I am afraid s I may have labored over you in vain.
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Brothers, t I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. u You did me no wrong.
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You know it was v because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you w at first,
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and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me x as an angel of God, y as Christ Jesus.
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What then has become of the blessing you felt? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.
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Have I then become your enemy by z telling you the truth?
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They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.
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It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and a not only when I am present with you,
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b my little children, c for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ d is formed in you!
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I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
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Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, e one by a slave woman and f one by a free woman.
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But g the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while h the son of the free woman was born through promise.
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Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two i covenants. j One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
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Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
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But k the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
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For it is written,
l "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband."
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Now you, brothers, m like Isaac, n are children of promise.
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But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh o persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, p so also it is now.
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But what does the Scripture say? q "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."
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So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but r of the free woman.
Galatians 5
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For s freedom Christ has t set us free; u stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to v a yoke of w slavery.
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Look: I, Paul, say to you that x if you accept circumcision, y Christ will be of no advantage to you.
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I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that z he is obligated to keep the whole law.
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You are a severed from Christ, b you who would be justified by the law; c you have fallen away from grace.
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For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly d wait for the hope of righteousness.
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For in Christ Jesus e neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but f only faith working through love.
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g You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying h the truth?
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This persuasion is not from i him who calls you.
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j A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
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k I have confidence in the Lord that you will l take no other view than mine, and m the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
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But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, n why am I still being persecuted? In that case o the offense of the cross has been removed.
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I wish p those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
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For you were called to freedom, brothers. q Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love r serve one another.
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For s the whole law is fulfilled in one word: t "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
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But if you u bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
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But I say, v walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify w the desires of the flesh.
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For x the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, y to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
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But if you are z led by the Spirit, a you are not under the law.
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Now b the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
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idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, c divisions,
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envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that d those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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But e the fruit of the Spirit is f love, joy, peace, patience, g kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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h gentleness, i self-control; j against such things there is no law.
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And those who belong to Christ Jesus k have crucified the flesh with its l passions and desires.
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If we live by the Spirit, m let us also walk by the Spirit.
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n Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6
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Brothers, o if anyone is caught in any transgression, p you who are spiritual should restore him in q a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
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r Bear one another's burdens, and s so fulfill t the law of Christ.
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For u if anyone thinks he is something, v when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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But let each one w test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
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For x each will have to bear his own load.
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y One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches.
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z Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for a whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
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For b the one who sows to his own flesh c will from the flesh reap corruption, but d the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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And e let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, f if we do not give up.
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So then, g as we have opportunity, let us h do good to everyone, and especially to those who are i of the household of faith.
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See with what large letters I am writing to you j with my own hand.
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k It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh l who would force you to be circumcised, and only m in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
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For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
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But far be it from me to boast n except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world o has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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For p neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but q a new creation.
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And as for all who walk by this rule, r peace and mercy be upon them, and upon s the Israel of God.
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From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
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t The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be u with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
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Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
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1 Timothy 2:6
Who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
Mark 1:15
And saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.
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Philippians 2:7
But made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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1 Timothy 2:15
Yet she will be saved through childbearing - if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
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Luke 2:21 - 22
And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Luke 2:27
And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law.
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Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree" -
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Galatians 3:26
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
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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Romans 5:5
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Acts 16:7
And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.
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Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
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1 Corinthians 1:21
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 John 4:8
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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Ephesians 2:11 - 12
Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands -
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.
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2 Chronicles 13:9
Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord...
Isaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire. For the...
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, even though they...
Jeremiah 5:7
How can I pardon you? Your children have forsak...
Jeremiah 16:20
Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to ...
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1 Corinthians 8:3
But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
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Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
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Romans 8:3
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.
Hebrews 7:18
For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
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Romans 14:5
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Colossians 2:16
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
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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 5:2
Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
Galatians 5:4
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
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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2 Corinthians 6:13
In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.
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2 Corinthians 2:5
Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure - not to put it too severely - to all of you.
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1 Corinthians 2:3
And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling.
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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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1 Samuel 29:9
And Achish answered David and said, "I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God. Nevertheless, the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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Matthew 10:40
Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
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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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Galatians 4:13
You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first.
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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.
Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment.
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James 1:18
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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Romans 8:10
But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!
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Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
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Galatians 4:29
But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
Romans 9:7
And not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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Galatians 4:28
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of ...
Genesis 17:16 - 19
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you...
Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you abo...
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appo...
Genesis 21:1 - 2
The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the ...
Hebrews 11:11
By faith Sarah herself received power to concei...
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Romans 9:4
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
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Deuteronomy 33:2
He said, "The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
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Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering.
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.
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:10
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.
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Isaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the Lord.
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Isaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the Lord.
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Galatians 4:23
But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
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Romans 9:8
This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
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Genesis 21:9
But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.
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Galatians 5:11
But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
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Genesis 21:10
So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.
John 8:35
The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.
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Genesis 21:10
So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.
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1 Peter 3:6
As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
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Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
James 1:25
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
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John 8:32
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
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1 Corinthians 16:13
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
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Acts 15:10
Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
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Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
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Galatians 5:3
I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
Galatians 5:11
But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
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.
1 Corinthians 7:18
Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision.
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Galatians 4:11
I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
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Romans 2:25
For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
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Romans 7:6
But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
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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.
Galatians 3:10
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.
Romans 9:31 - 32
But that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
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Hebrews 12:15
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled.
2 Peter 3:17
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
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Romans 8:23
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
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Galatians 6:15
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
1 Corinthians 7:19
For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.
Colossians 3:11
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in 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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Ephesians 6:23
Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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.
James 2:18
But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:20
Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
James 2:22
You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works.
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1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
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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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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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1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals.
Hebrews 12:15
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled.
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2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.
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Philippians 3:15
Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
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Galatians 1:7
Not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Galatians 5:12
I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
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Galatians 4:29
But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
Galatians 6:12
It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 1:23
But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.
1 Peter 2:8
And "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
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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.
Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
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1 Peter 2:16
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
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.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
2 Peter 2:19
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
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1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
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Matthew 7:12
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 22:40
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.
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Leviticus 19:18
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
Galatians 6:2
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Matthew 19:19
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
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Leviticus 19:18
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
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Philippians 3:2
Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
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Galatians 5:24 - 25
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Romans 8:4
In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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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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.
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Romans 7:23
But I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Romans 8:5 - 7
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
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Romans 7:15
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Romans 7:18 - 19
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
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Romans 8:14
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
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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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1 Corinthians 3:3
For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
Ephesians 5:3
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
James 3:14 - 15
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
Matthew 15:18 - 20
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.
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1 Corinthians 11:19
For there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
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Colossians 3:6
On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality.
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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.
Romans 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Ephesians 5:9
(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true).
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Romans 5:1 - 5
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 3:12 - 17
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
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2 Corinthians 6:6
By purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love.
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Ephesians 4:2
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.
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Acts 24:25
And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, "Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.
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1 Timothy 1:9
Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers.
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Galatians 5:16
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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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Romans 7:5
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
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Galatians 5:16
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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Philippians 2:3
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
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Psalms 141:5
Let a righteous man strike me - it is a kindness; let him rebuke me - it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
2 Corinthians 2:7
So you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
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.
James 5:19
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back.
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Romans 15:1
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
1 Corinthians 10:15
I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
1 Corinthians 2:15
The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
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1 Corinthians 4:21
What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
2 Timothy 2:25
Correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
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Romans 15:1
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
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Galatians 5:14
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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1 John 4:21
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
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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.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
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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 Corinthians 11:28
Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? - unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
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Romans 14:12
So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
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Romans 15:27
For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
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1 Corinthians 6:9
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals.
James 1:16
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
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2 Corinthians 9:6
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
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Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.
Job 4:8
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
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Romans 6:21
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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James 3:18
And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
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2 Thessalonians 3:13
As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
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Hebrews 12:3
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
Hebrews 12:5
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
Hebrews 10:36
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
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Proverbs 3:27
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
John 9:4
We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
John 12:35
So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
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Ephesians 4:28
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
1 Timothy 6:18
They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
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Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
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1 Corinthians 16:21
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.
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2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
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Galatians 2:3
But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.
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Galatians 5:11
But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
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1 Corinthians 2:2
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh -
Philippians 3:7 - 8
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
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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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Romans 2:28
For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
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John 3:5
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:7
Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.
Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
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Psalms 125:5
But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!
Psalms 128:6
May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!
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Galatians 3:7
Know then that it is those of faith who are the...
Galatians 3:9
So then, those who are of faith are blessed alo...
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's...
Romans 2:29
But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is ...
Romans 4:12
And to make him the father of the circumcised w...
Romans 9:6 - 8
But it is not as though the word of God has fai...
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship by the...
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Philemon 1:25
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
Romans 16:20
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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2 Timothy 4:22
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
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