The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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11 And as for me, brothers, if I am still preaching that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, my preaching about the execution-stake would cause no offense whatever.
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Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
12 I wish the people who are bothering you would go the whole way and castrate themselves!
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As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
13 For, brothers, you were called to be free. Only do not let that freedom become an excuse for allowing your old nature to have its way. Instead, serve one another in love.
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You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh ; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
14 For the whole of the Torah is summed up in this one sentence: "Love your neighbor as yourself";k
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For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
15 but if you go on snapping at each other and tearing each other to pieces, watch out, or you will be destroyed by each other!
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If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16 What I am saying is this: run your lives by the Spirit. Then you will not do what your old nature wants.
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So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
17 For the old nature wants what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the old nature. These oppose each other, so that you find yourselves unable to carry out your good intentions.
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For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, then you are not in subjection to the system that results from perverting the Torah into legalism.
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But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 And it is perfectly evident what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency;
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The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
20 involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue
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idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
21 and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!
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and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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