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(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):

But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.

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

But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace,

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles: immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood.

And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented: so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation.

To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not: And to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is Christ.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:

And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.

But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another.

For every one shall bear his own burden.

For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

Who hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children through Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will:

Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his, grace,

That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him,

In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

That we may be unto the praise of his glory: we who before hoped in Christ: