Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.
Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.
Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus.
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him),
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.”
But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.
I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
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