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

I have confidence in you through our LORD, that you will consider no other beliefs: that he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he is.

But let every man examine his own work, and then may he glory within himself alone, and not among others.

For every man shall bear his own burden.

And he marked us with his love to be his from the beginning, and adopted us to be sons through Jesus Christ, as it pleased his will.

To the praise of the glory of his grace that he has poured upon us by his beloved one.

In him we have salvation, and in his blood, forgiveness of sins, according to the richness of his grace;

And because he has made known to us the mystery of his will, as he has ordained from the very beginning, to work through it;

By whom we have been chosen, as he had marked us from the beginning so he wanted to carry out everything according to the good judgment of his will:

That we should become the first to trust in Christ, to his honor and his glory:

Which is the pledge of our inheritance, for the salvation of those who are saved, and for the glory of his honour.

And so that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the glorious riches of his inheritance in the saints;

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power in us as the result of the things we believe, according to the skill of his mighty power,

Which he wrought through Christ, when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in heaven,

And has put all things under his feet, and made him, who is above all things, the head of the church,

Which is his body, and confirmation of him who fulfills all things and every thing.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

In the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Jesus Christ.

For we are his creation, created through Jesus Christ ultimately for good works, which God has before ordained that we should live in them.

And he has abolished by his precious body, the enmity between them, and he has abolished by his commandments, the ordinances of the law, that he may create, in his person, from the two, a new man, thus making peace;