Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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13 Ye know how through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
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As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you,
14 And my affliction which was in my flesh ye did not despise, nor reject but <em>ye</em> received me as an angel of God, <em>even</em> as Christ Jesus.
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and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
15 Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of? for I bear you record that if <em>it had been</em> possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.
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Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16 Am I, therefore, become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
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Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 They are zealous after you, <em>but</em> not <em>for</em> good; they would exclude you <em>from us</em>, that ye might be zealous after them.
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Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them.
18 It is good to be always zealous to <em>do</em> good, and not only when I am present with you.
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It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
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My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now and to change my voice, for I stand in doubt of you.
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how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, have ye not heard the law?
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Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
23 But he <em>who was</em> of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, but he of the freewoman <em>was born</em> through the promise.
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His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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