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(As it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness remaineth for ever.

Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

But I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity toward Christ.

Therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose ends shall be according to their works.

But I was let down through a window in a basket by the wall, and escaped from his hands.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Christ who called you by his grace to another gospel, Which is not another;

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood:

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son,

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be no otherwise minded; but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

For every man shall bear his own burden.

Having predestinated us to the adoption of sons to himself by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

To the praise of the glory of his grace,

by which he hath freely accepted us through the beloved, By whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins,

according to the riches of his grace, Wherein he hath abounded toward us,

in all wisdom and prudence, Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in himself,