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But what does the Scripture say? “Drive out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave will never be a coheir with the son of the free woman.”

For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

For we eagerly await through the Spirit, by faith, the hope of righteousness.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.

For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so that you also won’t be tempted.

For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For each person will have to carry his own load.

Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap,

Let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.

Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised—but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For even the circumcised don’t keep the law themselves, and yet they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.

But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.

For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him.

He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,