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For if the inheritance comes from the law, it no longer comes from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.

Now a mediator involves more than one party; but God is one.

But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian,

but they remain under guardians and trustees until the date set by the father.

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.

though my condition put you to the test, you did not scorn or despise me, but welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you may make much of them.

But the other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free, and she is our mother.

But just as at that time the child who was born according to the flesh persecuted the child who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.

But what does the scripture say? "Drive out the slave and her child; for the child of the slave will not share the inheritance with the child of the free woman."

So then, friends, we are children, not of the slave but of the free woman.

I am confident about you in the Lord that you will not think otherwise. But whoever it is that is confusing you will pay the penalty.

But my friends, why am I still being persecuted if I am still preaching circumcision? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.

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

If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but a new creation is everything!