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Now if they are Hebrews, so am I. If they are Israelites, so am I. If they are descendants of Abraham, so am I.

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless as a shrewd man, I caught you with guile:

For though Jesus was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. As we are weak with him, so we are alive with him by the power of God who is among you.

Examine yourselves, whether you are in the same faith; heal your souls. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is among you? If this is not so, then you are rejected.

Therefore I write these things while I am far away, so that when I come, I need not deal harshly with you, according to the authority which my LORD has given me, which is for your edification and not for your destruction.

As I have said before, so say I now again, If any man preaches any other gospel to you than that you have received, let him be accursed.

Are you so foolish, after having begun with spiritual things to end now with things of the flesh?

So then, it is the believers who are blessed through Abraham the faithful.

So if you belong to Christ, then you are descendants of Abraham, and his heirs according to the promise.

Even so we, when we were young, were subject to the principles of this world:

These men do not envy you for good, but they would dominate you, so that you might envy them.

But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

So then, my brethren, we are not children of the maidservant but children of the freewoman.

For the flesh craves that which is harmful to the Spirit, and the Spirit opposes the things of the flesh: and the two are contrary to one another, so that you are unable to do whatever you please.

Bear one another''s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

For not even they who are circumcised obey the law; but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast over your flesh.

By whom we have been chosen, as he had marked us from the beginning so he wanted to carry out everything according to the good judgment of his will:

In whom, you also have heard the word of truth, which is the gospel for your salvation: in him you have believed, so you are sealed with the Holy Spirit that was promised,

So that the God of our LORD Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

And so that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the glorious riches of his inheritance in the saints;