The Message Bible MSG
The Latin Vulgate VUL
1 Live creatively, friends. If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical comments for yourself. You might be needing forgiveness before the day's out.
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fratres et si praeoccupatus fuerit homo in aliquo delicto vos qui spiritales estis huiusmodi instruite in spiritu lenitatis considerans te ipsum ne et tu tempteris
2 Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ's law.
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alter alterius onera portate et sic adimplebitis legem Christi
3 If you think you are too good for that, you are badly deceived.
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nam si quis existimat se aliquid esse cum sit nihil ipse se seducit
4 Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others.
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opus autem suum probet unusquisque et sic in semet ipso tantum gloriam habebit et non in altero
5 Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.
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unusquisque enim onus suum portabit
6 Be very sure now, you who have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity, that you enter into a generous common life with those who have trained you, sharing all the good things that you have and experience.
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communicet autem is qui catecizatur verbum ei qui se catecizat in omnibus bonis
7 Don't be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others - ignoring God! -
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nolite errare Deus non inridetur
8 harvests a crop of weeds. All he'll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God's Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.
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quae enim seminaverit homo haec et metet quoniam qui seminat in carne sua de carne et metet corruptionem qui autem seminat in spiritu de spiritu metet vitam aeternam
9 So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don't give up, or quit.
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bonum autem facientes non deficiamus tempore enim suo metemus non deficientes
10 Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.
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ergo dum tempus habemus operemur bonum ad omnes maxime autem ad domesticos fidei
11 Now, in these last sentences, I want to emphasize in the bold scrawls of my personal handwriting the immense importance of what I have written to you.
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videte qualibus litteris scripsi vobis mea manu
12 These people who are attempting to force the ways of circumcision on you have only one motive: They want an easy way to look good before others, lacking the courage to live by a faith that shares Christ's suffering and death. All their talk about the law is gas.
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quicumque volunt placere in carne hii cogunt vos circumcidi tantum ut crucis Christi persecutionem non patiantur
13 They themselves don't keep the law! And they are highly selective in the laws they do observe. They only want you to be circumcised so they can boast of their success in recruiting you to their side. That is contemptible!
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neque enim qui circumciduntur legem custodiunt sed volunt vos circumcidi ut in carne vestra glorientur
14 For my part, I am going to boast about nothing but the Cross of our Master, Jesus Christ. Because of that Cross, I have been crucified in relation to the world, set free from the stifling atmosphere of pleasing others and fitting into the little patterns that they dictate.
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mihi autem absit gloriari nisi in cruce Domini nostri Iesu Christi per quem mihi mundus crucifixus est et ego mundo
15 Can't you see the central issue in all this? It is not what you and I do - submit to circumcision, reject circumcision. It is what God is doing, and he is creating something totally new, a free life!
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in Christo enim Iesu neque circumcisio aliquid valet neque praeputium sed nova creatura
16 All who walk by this standard are the true Israel of God - his chosen people. Peace and mercy on them!
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et quicumque hanc regulam secuti fuerint pax super illos et misericordia et super Israhel Dei
17 Quite frankly, I don't want to be bothered anymore by these disputes. I have far more important things to do - the serious living of this faith. I bear in my body scars from my service to Jesus.
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de cetero nemo mihi molestus sit ego enim stigmata Iesu in corpore meo porto
18 May what our Master Jesus Christ gives freely be deeply and personally yours, my friends. Oh, yes!
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gratia Domini nostri Iesu Christi cum spiritu vestro fratres amen
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