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For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we pray for, that you may be perfected.

Therefore I write these things while I am far away, so that when I come, I need not deal harshly with you, according to the authority which my LORD has given me, which is for your edification and not for your destruction.

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God our Father:

To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I tried to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

For I did not receive it nor learn it from man, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And how that I was far more advanced in the Jews'' religion than many of my age among the people of my race for above all, I was especially zealous for the doctrines of my forefathers.

For they had heard only this much; that he who had persecuted us before now preached the faith which previously he tried to destroy.

To those false brothers we did not submit, not even for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

Now those who were considered to be important (what they are makes no difference to me, for God does not discriminate among men), even these very persons did not contribute additional knowledge to me.

(For he who made Cephas vigorous in the apostleship of the circumcision, has also made me mighty in the apostleship of the Gentiles:)

For before certain men came from James, Cephas ate with the Gentiles: but after they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he was afraid of them who belonged to the circumcision.

For if we who are of Jewish origin, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

Know that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no human being be justified.

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I will prove myself to be a transgressor of the law.

For through the law I am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

I am crucified with Christ: henceforth it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life which now I live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness comes by means of the law, then Christ died in vain.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness,

For those who rely on the works of the law are still under the curse: for as it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not practice everything which is written in the book of the law.