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Bible (KJV) NT 09-12: Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians

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48:004:001 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 48:004:002 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. 48:004:003 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 48:004:004 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 48:004:005 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 48:004:006 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 48:004:007 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. 48:004:008 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. 48:004:009 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 48:004:010 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 48:004:011 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. 48:004:012 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. 48:004:013 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 48:004:014 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 48:004:015 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. 48:004:016 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? 48:004:017 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. 48:004:018 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. 48:004:019 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 48:004:020 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. 48:004:021 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 48:004:022 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 48:004:023 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 48:004:024 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 48:004:025 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 48:004:026 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 48:004:027 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. 48:004:028 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 48:004:029 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 48:004:030 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. 48:004:031 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. 48:005:001 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 48:005:002 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 48:005:003 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 48:005:004 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 48:005:005 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 48:005:006 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. 48:005:007 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? 48:005:008 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. 48:005:009 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 48:005:010 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. 48:005:011 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. 48:005:012 I would they were even cut off which trouble you. 48:005:013 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 48:005:014 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 48:005:015 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 48:005:016 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 48:005:017 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 48:005:018 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 48:005:019 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 48:005:020 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 48:005:021 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 48:005:022 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 48:005:023 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 48:005:024 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 48:005:025 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 48:005:026 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. 48:006:001 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 48:006:002 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 48:006:003 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 48:006:004 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 48:006:005 For every man shall bear his own burden. 48:006:006 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. 48:006:007 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 48:006:008 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 48:006:009 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 48:006:010 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. 48:006:011 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. 48:006:012 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. 48:006:013 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. 48:006:014 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 48:006:015 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. 48:006:016 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. 48:006:017 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. 48:006:018 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 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