The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Brothers, suppose someone is caught doing something wrong. You who have the Spirit should set him right, but in a spirit of humility, keeping an eye on yourselves so that you won't be tempted too.
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Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.
2 Bear one another's burdens - in this way you will be fulfilling the Torah's true meaning, which the Messiah upholds.
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Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is fooling himself.
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For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.
4 So let each of you scrutinize his own actions. Then if you do find something to boast about, at least the boasting will be based on what you have actually done and not merely on a judgment that you are better than someone else;
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But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.
5 for each person will carry his own load.
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Because every man is responsible for his part of the work.
6 But whoever is being instructed in the Word should share all the good things he has with his instructor.
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But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.
7 Don't delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God! A person reaps what he sows.
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Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
8 Those who keep sowing in the field of their old nature, in order to meet its demands, will eventually reap ruin; but those who keep sowing in the field of the Spirit will reap from the Spirit everlasting life.
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Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.
9 So let us not grow weary of doing what is good; for if we don't give up, we will in due time reap the harvest.
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And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.
10 Therefore, as the opportunity arises, let us do what is good to everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful.
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So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.
11 Look at the large letters I use as I close in my own handwriting.
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See the size of the handwriting which I myself have made use of in writing to you.
12 It is those who want to look good outwardly who are trying to get you to be circumcised. The only reason they are doing it is to escape persecution for preaching about the Messiah's execution-stake.
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Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.
13 For even those who are getting circumcised don't observe the Torah. On the contrary, they want you to get circumcised so that they can boast of having gained your adherence.
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Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.
14 But as for me, Heaven forbid that I should boast about anything except the execution-stake of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah! Through him, as far as I am concerned, the world has been put to death on the stake; and through him, as far as the world is concerned, I have been put to death on the stake.
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But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
15 For neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is being a new creation.
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For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.
16 And as many as order their lives by this rule, shalom upon them and mercy, and upon the Isra'el of God!
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And on all who are guided by this rule be peace and mercy, and on the Israel of God.
17 From now on, I don't want anyone to give me any more tsuris, because I have scars on my body to prove that I belong to Yeshua!
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From this time on let no man be a trouble to me; because my body is marked with the marks of Jesus.
18 The grace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. So be it.
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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