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And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

Have you suffered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain?

So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.

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

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

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

having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,

But you have not so learned Christ,

Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

so that it has become evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Christ;

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

Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so:

Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.