You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

But the scripture imprisoned everything and everyone under sin so that the promise could be given – because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ – to those who believe.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

I am grateful to the one who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me faithful in putting me into ministry,

Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

and in one case tithes are received by mortal men, while in the other by him who is affirmed to be alive.

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.