and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying,
Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.
But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith.
and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,
Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—
On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
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