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Have ye suffered so many things in vain?

So then they who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse;

And this I say, the covenant which was before confirmed of God through Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

So we also, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

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

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.

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

having broken down the middle wall of partition, Having abolished by his flesh the enmity, the law of commandments, through his decrees, that he might make the two one new man in himself, so making peace:

But ye have not so learned Christ; Since ye have heard him,

(and he is the Saviour of the body) Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Men ought so to love their wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

But let every one of you in particular so love his wife as himself: and let the wife reverence her husband.

So that my bonds in Christ have been made manifest in the whole palace, and to all others:

According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Brethren, be ye followers together of me, and mark them who walk so as ye have us for an example.

Therefore, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him;

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

So that ye became examples to all that believed in Macedonia and Achaia.

For from you the word of the Lord sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith toward God went abroad in every place also, so that we need not speak any thing.