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this therefore I say, that the law, which was not till four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the promise, that was ratified before by God, so as to set the promise afoot.

now if the right to the inheritance be from the law, it is no longer founded upon the promise; altho' God made a donation of it to Abraham by promise.

now a mediator supposes two parties, of which God is but one.

for you are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

God sent forth his own son born of a woman, and subject to the law, to redeem those,

and because ye are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying Abba, that is, father;

so that thou art no longer a bond servant, but a son: and if a son, then an heir of God thro' Christ.

When you did not know God, you did service to those, who in reality are no Gods; but now that you know God,

yet you did not despise me for the trial which attended my person, nor treated me with scorn; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

be not deceived, God will not be mocked: for what a man soweth, that shall he also reap:

as many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, even upon the Israel of God.

grace be to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all the spiritual blessings in Christ's kingdom.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, whereby ye may know him:

then it was that God, who is rich in mercy, thro' his great love, wherewith he loved us,

it is the gift of God) but not by works, so that no man can boast:

for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them.

that at that time ye were without all knowledge of the Messiah, being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and living in the world without any true knowledge of God.

that he might reconcile both in one body unto God by the cross, wherefore he destroyed the enmity that was between them: