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For you were called to be free, brothers; only don't use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don't do what you want.

Brothers, if someone is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual should restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so you also won't be tempted.

For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.

For each person will have to carry his own load.

Don't be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap,

So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don't give up.

Therefore, as we have opportunity, we must work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.

Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised—but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For even the circumcised don't keep the law themselves; however, they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.

But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.

For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.

From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body scars for the cause of Jesus.

For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love

He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,

for the administration of the days of fulfillment—to bring everything together in the Messiah, both things in heaven and things on earth in Him.

He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,