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But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law,

And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of His Son to enter your hearts and cry "Abba! our Father!"

But at one time, you Gentiles, having no knowledge of God, were slaves to gods which in reality do not exist.

Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?

and yet the bodily infirmity which was such a trial to you, you did not regard with contempt or loathing, but you received me as if I had been an angel of God or Christ Jesus Himself!

Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace.

*We* have not, for through the Spirit we wait with longing hope for an acceptance with God which is to come through faith.

Would to God that those who are unsettling your faith would even mutilate themselves.

hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

Do not deceive yourselves. God is not to be scoffed at. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

And all who shall regulate their lives by this principle--may peace and mercy be given to them--and to the true Israel of God.

Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God: To God's people who are in Ephesus--believers in Christ Jesus.

May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;

For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,

God has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His Body,

which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.