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for he has discover'd to us the secret of his will, that out of his meer good pleasure, he had purposed in himself,

and this is the pledge of our inheritance, being given for the deliverance of his peculiar people, to the display of his glory.

for he has subjected all things to him, and constituted him supreme head of the church,

did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved:

for by grace are ye saved, thro' faith (and that not from us:

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.

for he is our peace-maker, who hath united both Jew and Gentile, and hath by his flesh broken down the middle wall of partition

for thro' him both of us have access by the same spirit to the father.

This it is that makes me Paul a prisoner for Jesus Christ upon your account, O Gentiles;

if so be you have heard of the charge, which God has graciously dispens'd to me for you Gentiles;

Wherefore I desire that you be not dejected at the tribulations I am under for your sake, which are matter of glory to you.

for this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I therefore the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to live suitably to the offers that have been made to you:

thus fitly qualifying his servants for their respective offices, in order to build up the body of Christ:

This I say therefore, and conjure you by the Lord not to live for the future as other Gentiles do, in the vanity of their minds,

Wherefore leave off the practice of lying, and let every man speak truth to his neighbour: for we are all members of one society.

be mutually kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

for Christ loved us, and for us gave himself an offering and a sacrifice acceptable to God.

for this you know, that no licentious or dissolute person, no lewd libertine, that is, an idolater, hath any part in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.

let no man mislead you by vain reasonings: for it is for these vices, that the wrath of God lights upon the incredulous.