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So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances: to make in himself of two one new man, [so] making peace;

But ye have not so learned Christ;

Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.

So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.

Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself: and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other [places];

According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them who walk so as ye have us for an example.

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, [so] walk ye in him:

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man hath a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.

So that ye were examples to all that believe, in Macedonia and Achaia.

For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

But as we were allowed by God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear to us.

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more.