For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

I wish I could be with you now and change my tone of voice, because I am perplexed about you.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,

Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.”

if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.

Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer: