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

And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

But let each man prove his own work, and then he shall have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

For each man shall bear his own load.

For he that sows to his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

having preappointed us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed 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 preappointed according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of [God's] own possession, to the praise of his glory.

having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

and what the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly [places],

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: