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- Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.
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- Beholde, I Paul say vnto you, that if yee be circumcised, Christ shall profite you nothing.
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- For I testifie againe to euery man, which is circumcised, that he is bound to keepe the whole Lawe.
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- Ye are abolished from Christ: whosoeuer are iustified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.
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- For we through the Spirit waite for the hope of righteousnes through faith.
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- For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision auaileth any thing, neither vncircumcision, but faith which worketh by loue.
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- Ye did runne well: who did let you, that ye did not obey the trueth?
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- It is not the perswasion of him that calleth you.
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- A litle leauen doeth leauen the whole lumpe.
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- I haue trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but hee that troubleth you, shal beare his condemnation, whosoeuer he be.
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- And brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why doe I yet suffer persecution?
Then is the slaunder of the crosse abolished.
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- Would to God they were euen cut off, which doe disquiet you.
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- For brethren, ye haue bene called vnto libertie: onely vse not your libertie as an occasion vnto the flesh, but by loue serue one another.
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- For all the Lawe is fulfilled in one worde, which is this, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.
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- If ye bite and deuoure one another, take heede least ye be consumed one of another.
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- Then I say, Walke in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lustes of the flesh.
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- For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye can not doe the same things that ye would.
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- And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not vnder the Lawe.
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- Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are adulterie, fornication, vncleannes, wantonnes,
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- Idolatrie, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies,
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- Enuie, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonie, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also haue tolde you before, that they which doe such things, shall not inherite the kingdome of God.
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- But the fruite of the Spirit is loue, ioye, peace, long suffering, gentlenes, goodnes, fayth,
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- Meekenesse, temperancie: against such there is no lawe.
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- For they that are Christes, haue crucified the flesh with the affections and the lustes.
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- If we liue in the Spirit, let vs also walke in the Spirit.
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- Let vs not be desirous of vaine glorie, prouoking one another, enuying one another.
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