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you, that they which practise such things shall not in22 herit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit

is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, 23 faithfulness, meekness, temperance: against such 1Or, 24 there is no law. And they that are of Christ Jesus self-control. have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts

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25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also 26 walk. Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

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Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of meekness; looking to thyself, lest thou also 2 be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so 3 fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth him4 self. But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, 5 and not of his neighbour. For each man shall bear 2 Gr. the his own burden.

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6 But let him that is taught in the word communicate 7 unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man 8 soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit 9 reap eternal life. And let us not be weary in welldoing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint 10 not. So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

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See with how large letters I have written unto you Or, write. 12 with mine own hand. As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circum- 5 Or, by cised; only that they may not be persecuted 5 for the reason of. 13 cross of Christ. For not even they who receive cir- "Some cumcision do themselves keep the law; but they authorities desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory been cir14 in your flesh. But far be it from me to glory, save cumcised. in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which Or, a law. the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the

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world. For neither is circumcision any thing, nor 15 uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many 16 as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear 17 branded on my body the marks of Jesus.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your 18 spirit, brethren. Amen.

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE

TO THE

EPHESIANS.

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PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints which are 1at Ephesus, and the 1 Some very 2 faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from authorities God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual bless4 ing in the heavenly places in Christ: even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in 2 Or, him: 5 love having foreordained us unto adoption as sons love foreorhaving in through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the dained us. 6 good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Or, 7 Beloved in whom we have our redemption through he endued his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according 8 to the riches of his grace, which he made to abound Or, where 9 toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made abounded. known unto us the mystery of his will, according to 10 his good pleasure which he purposed in him unto a dispensation of the fulness of the 5 times, to sum up Gr. all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and seasons. 11 the things upon the earth; in him, I say, in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all 12 things after the counsel of his will; to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who 13 had before hoped in Christ: in whom ye also, having' Or, have. heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, -in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed

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of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in 15 the Lord Jesus which is among you, and 2 which ye shew toward all the saints, cease not to give thanks 16 authorities for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that 17 the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; having the eyes of 18 your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what the exceeding 19 greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from 20 the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule, and authority, and 21 power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come and he put all things in subjection under his 22 feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that 23 filleth all in all.

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And you did he quicken, when ye were dead through 2 your trespasses and sins, wherein aforetime ye walked 2 Gr. age. according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; among 3 whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the 5 mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love where- 4 with he loved us, even when we were dead through 5 our trespasses, quickened us together with Christ (by authorities grace have ye been saved), and raised us up with him, 6 read in and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might shew 7 the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: for by grace have ye been saved 8 through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, that no man should glory. 9

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Wherefore remember, that aforetime ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by 12 hands; that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no 13 hope and without God in the world. But now in

Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh 14 in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition, 15 having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the twain one new man, so 16 making peace; and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the en17 mity thereby: and he came and preached peace to1 Gr. you that were far off, and peace to them that were preached 18 nigh for through him we both have our access in one of peace. 19 Spirit unto the Father. So then ye are no more stran

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gers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the 20 saints, and of the household of God, being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ 21 Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; in whom 2 each several building, fitly framed together, groweth 2 Gr. every 22 into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom ye also are 3 Or, builded together for a habitation of God in the sanctuary. Spirit.

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3 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus
2 in behalf of you Gentiles, if so be that ye have
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was made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote
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5 which in other generations was not made known unto
the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto
6 his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; to wit,

that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members

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