How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

if it is exhortation, he must exhort; if it is contributing, he must do so with sincerity; if it is leadership, he must do so with diligence; if it is showing mercy, he must do so with cheerfulness.

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

ruin and misery are in their paths,

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.

that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine.

I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit –

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the written code. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, laborers in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,