Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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IV.—The Gospel in the Daily Life.
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1 It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand
firm therefore, and do not again be held under the
yoke of slavery.
2 Understand that I, Paul, myself tell you that if you allow
yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will avail you nothing.
3 I
again declare to every one who receives circumcision, that he
binds himself to obey the whole Law.
4 You have severed
yourselves from Christ—you who are seeking to be pronounced
righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love.
5 For
we, by the help of the Spirit, are eagerly waiting for the fulfilment
of our hope—that we may be pronounced righteous as
the result of faith.
6 If a man is in union with Christ Jesus,
neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but
faith, working through love, is everything.
7 You were once making good progress! Who has hindered
you from obeying the Truth?
8 The persuasion brought to bear
on you does not come from him who calls you.
9 A little leaven
leavens all the dough.
10 I, through my union with the Lord,
am persuaded that you will learn to think with me. But the
man who is disturbing your minds will have to bear his punishment,
whoever he may be. ⪆⪆
11 If I, Brothers, am still
proclaiming circumcision, why am I still persecuted? It seems
that the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle! ⪆⪆
12 I could
even wish that the people who are unsettling you would go
further still and mutilate themselves.
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13 Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to
give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom
an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve
one another in a loving spirit.
14 Indeed, the whole Law has
been summed up in this one precept—
‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thou dost thyself.’ note
15 But, if you are continually wounding and preying upon one
another, take care that you are not destroyed by one another.
note
16 This is what I have to say:—Let your steps be
guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify
the cravings of your earthly nature.
17 For these
cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the
Spirit with our earthly nature—they are two contrary principles
—so that you cannot do what you wish.
18 But, if you follow
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the guidance of the Spirit, you are not subject to Law.
19 The
sins of our earthly nature are unmistakeable. They are sins
like these—unchastity,
20 impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery,
quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries,
dissensions,
21 divisions, feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry,
and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that
those who indulge in such things will have no place in the
Kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness,
gentleness, self-control.
23 Against such things there is no law!
24 And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already
crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its
cravings.
25 Since our Life is due to the Spirit, let us rule our conduct
also by the Spirit.
26 Do not let us grow vain, and provoke or
envy one another. ⪆⪆
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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