For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

– though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

Therefore let those of us who are “perfect” embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days –

As I urged you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to spread false teachings,

sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers – in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people’s faith.

An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.

And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us.