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they are zealous for you -- [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

but he who [is] of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who [is] of the free-woman, through the promise;

but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'

then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;

far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what [is] the will of the Lord,

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also [are] the wives to their own husbands in everything.

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,