Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
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.
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.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. So be it.
Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.
Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.
Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.
For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.
In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:
For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God,
But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,
How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?
For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.
So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
Then the Jews came round him, saying, how long are you going to keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, say so clearly.
She said to him, Yes, Lord: my faith is that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.
For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.
He said quite openly and straightforwardly, I am not the Christ.
Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?
Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).
And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.
You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.
The woman said to him, I am certain that the Messiah, who is named Christ, is coming; when he comes he will make all things clear to us.
Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?
And here he is talking openly and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that the rulers have knowledge that this is truly the Christ?
However, it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one will have knowledge where he comes from.
And numbers of the people had belief in him, and they said, When the Christ comes will he do more signs than this man has done?
Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?
Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?
They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ:
But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, let us give glory and honour and authority and power, before all time and now and for ever. So be it.
For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
And he said to them, Why do they say that the Christ is the son of David?
For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.
And he had knowledge, through the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ.
If you are the Christ, say so. But he said, If I say so you will not have belief;
And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.
And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.
And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.
Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?
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