Day 73 of 90

Gal 5:1–6:18

5:1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

5:2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

5:3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

5:4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

5:5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

5:7 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

5:8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

5:9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

5:10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

5:11 But I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

5:12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

5:13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you do not consume one another.

5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

5:20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

5:21 envyings, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

5:23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

5:26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

6:1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also are not tempted.

6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the Law of Christ.

6:3 For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

6:4 But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

6:5 For each man will bear his own burden.

6:6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

6:7 Do not be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

6:8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

6:9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we do not give up.

6:10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

6:11 See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

6:12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

6:13 For even they who receive circumcision do not keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

6:14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

6:15 For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

6:16 As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God's Israel.

6:17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

6:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

Eph 1:1–2:22

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

1:5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved One,

1:7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

1:8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

1:9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

1:10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

1:11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

1:12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

1:13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation,-in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

1:14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

1:15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

1:16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

1:18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

1:20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

1:21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

1:22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the church,

1:23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

2:3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

2:6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

2:7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

2:8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

2:9 not of works, that no one would boast.

2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

2:11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

2:12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,

2:15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

2:17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.

2:18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

2:20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

2:21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

2:22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.