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God has united you with ChristJesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.
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For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became your father in ChristJesus when I preached the Good News to you.
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Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing ChristJesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ
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This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by JesusChrist himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.