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So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Avraham.

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Messiah, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Messiah, that we might be justified by faith.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world.

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Messiah.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones, and of the household of God,

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

But as the assembly is subject to Messiah, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Messiah;

so that my bonds became revealed in Messiah throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.