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For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in someone else.

because the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

For not even those who are circumcised observe the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised in order that they may boast in your flesh.

But as for me, may it never be that I boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name named, not only in this age but also in the coming one,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ.

Consequently, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God,

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him with reference to all things, who is the head, Christ,

But you did not learn Christ in this way,

The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands what is good, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.

No rotten word must proceed from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which are not proper), but rather thanksgiving.