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For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.

For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father;

For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.

For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I taught [them], but by revelation of Jesus Christ.

For ye have heard [what was] my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it;

to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.

But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat—whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous communicated nothing;

(for he that wrought in Peter for [the] apostleship of the circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)

for before that certain came from James, he ate with [those of] the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of [the] circumcision;

For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again, I constitute myself a transgressor.

For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.

I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but Christ lives in me; but [in] that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.

I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness [is] by law, then Christ has died for nothing.

For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which [are] written in the book of the law to do them;

Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed [is] every one hanged upon a tree,)

For if the inheritance [be] on the principle of law, [it is] no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise.

Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in [the] hand of a mediator.