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Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.

But when He who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace was pleased

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

(for He who was at work for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised was at work for me also to the Gentiles),

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "And to seeds," as one would in referring to many, but rather as in referring to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba! Father!"

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 each one will bear his own load.

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.

He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of His grace

He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He set forth in Him,

regarding His plan of the fullness of the times, to bring all things together in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.

In Him we also have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the plan of His will,

to the end that we who were the first to hope in the Christ would be to the praise of His glory.

who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.