You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.