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But as for me, let me not glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

For circumcision is nothing; neither is uncircumcision; but a new creation.

high above all principalities, and authorities, and powers, and lordships, and above every name that is named, not only in this world but also in that to come:

But God who is rich in his mercies, because of the great love with which he loved us,

For it is by his grace we are rescued, through faith; and this is not of yourselves, but it is the gift of God:

But now, by Jesus the Messiah, ye who before were afar off, have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

Wherefore, ye are not strangers, nor sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also previously descended to the interior [fn] of the earth?

but that we might be established in our love; and that every thing in us might progress in the Messiah, who is the head:

But ye have not so learned the Messiah;

But [fn] , that ye should lay aside your former practices, the old man that is corrupted with the lusts of error;

And let him that stole, steal no more; but let him labor with his hands, and do good acts; that he may have to give to him who needeth.

Let no hateful language come from your mouth, but that which is decorous, and useful for edification, that it may convey grace to those who hear.

But whoredom, and all impurity, and avarice let them not be at all heard of among you, as it becometh the saints;

Neither obscenities, nor words of folly, or of division, or of scurrility, which are not useful; but instead of these, thanksgiving.

For ye were heretofore darkness, but now are ye light in our Lord: therefore, as the children of light, so walk ye.

And have no commerce with the works of darkness which are unfruitful, but reprove them.

but like the wise, who purchase their opportunity; because the days are evil.

Therefore, be not lacking in understanding; but understand ye what is the pleasure of God.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness; but be ye filled with the spirit.