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Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."

But I am afraid that by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

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

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so much that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

For each man will bear his own burden.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

having predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;