You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
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