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In that, though, indeed, the exhortation, he welcomed; yet already being, greatly in earnest, of his own accord, hath he gone forth unto you.

Each one, according as he hath purposed in his heart, not sorrowfully, nor of necessity, - for, a cheerful giver, God, loveth.

Even as it is written - He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy, - his righteousness, abideth to futurity.

Thanks be unto God, for his unspeakable bounty!

But I fear lest, by any means, as, the serpent, completely deceived Eve, in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the singleness and the chastenesswhich are due unto the Christ.

No great thing, therefore, if, his ministers also, are transfiguring themselves as ministers of righteousness! - whose end, shall be according to their works.

And, through a window, was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

But, when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me through his favour, was well-pleased

to reveal his Son in me, that I might announce the glad-message regarding him among the nations, straightway, I conferred not with flesh and blood,

Now, unto Abraham, were spoken the promises - and unto his seed; - He saith not - and unto thy seeds, as of many, but, as of one - and unto thy seed, which is Christ:

But, when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, who came to be of a woman, who came to be under law, -

And, because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, exclaiming, Abba! Oh Father!

Ye have been set aside from Christ, ye who, by law, are to be declared righteous, - out of his favour, ye have fallen;

But, his own work, let each one be putting to the proof, and, then, for himself alone, the matter of boasting, shall he have, and not for some other,

For, each one, his own proper load, shall bear: -

Because, he that soweth into his own flesh, out of the flesh, shall reap corruption, whereas, he that soweth into the Spirit, out of the Spirit, shall reap age-abiding life.

According as he made choice of us, in him, before the founding of a world, that we might be holy and blameless in his presence; in love,

marking us out beforehand unto sonship, through Jesus Christ, for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Unto the praise of the glory of his favour wherewith he favoured us in the Beloved One, -

In whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of our offences, according to the riches of his favour,