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But what says the Scripture? "Send away the slave-girl and her son, for never shall the slave-girl's son share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

Therefore, brethren, since we are not the children of a slave-girl, but of the free woman--

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working through love.

For my part I have strong confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt my view of the matter. But the man--be he who he may--who is troubling you, will have to bear the full weight of the judgement to be pronounced on him.

You however, brethren, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures; but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love.

But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

But if the Spirit is leading you, you are not subject to Law.

But let every man scrutinize his own conduct, and then he will find out, not with reference to another but with reference to himself, what he has to boast of.

But let those who receive instruction in Christian truth share with their instructors all temporal blessings.

He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.

All who desire to display their zeal for external observances try to compel you to receive circumcision, but their real object is simply to escape being persecuted for the Cross of Christ.

For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies.

But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only a renewed nature.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were so far away have been brought near through the death of Christ.

There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you were called you had one and the same hope held out to you.

There is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

(Now this "re-ascended" --what does it mean but that He had first descended into the lower regions of the earth?

But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ.