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and you did not despise that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition, nor express contempt, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

They eagerly seek you, not in a commendable way, but they want to shut you out so that you will seek them.

But it is good always to be eagerly sought in a commendable way, and not only when I am present with you.

but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my tone of voice, for I am at a loss about you!

But the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.

But as at that time the son who was born according to the flesh persecuted the one who was born according to the Spirit, so it is even now.

But what does the Scripture say? "DRIVE OUT THE SLAVE WOMAN AND HER SON, FOR THE SON OF THE SLAVE WOMAN SHALL NOT BE AN HEIR WITH THE SON OF THE FREE WOMAN."

So then, brothers and sisters, we are not children of a slave woman, but of the free woman.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will adopt no other view; but the one who is disturbing you will bear the punishment, whoever he is.

But as for me, brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been eliminated.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting, but to himself alone, and not to another.

For the one who sows to his own flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.