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19 “And so my judgment is that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

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19 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

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28 “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay no greater burden on you than these few requirements:

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28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit(A) and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:

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for they keep talking about the wonderful welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve the living and true God.

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for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned(A) to God from idols(B) to serve the living and true God,(C)

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but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.

Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you. I say again what we have said before: If anyone preaches any other Good News than the one you welcomed, let that person be cursed.

10 Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.

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which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion(A) and are trying to pervert(B) the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you,(C) let them be under God’s curse!(D) As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted,(E) let them be under God’s curse!

10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people?(F) If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

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24 “We understand that some men from here have troubled you and upset you with their teaching, but we did not send them!

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24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said.(A)

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20 I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that all must repent of their sins and turn to God—and prove they have changed by the good things they do.

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20 First to those in Damascus,(A) then to those in Jerusalem(B) and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles,(C) I preached that they should repent(D) and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.(E)

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Bring your confessions, and return to the Lord.
    Say to him,
“Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us,
    so that we may offer you our praises.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 14:2 As in Greek and Syriac versions, which read may repay the fruit of our lips; Hebrew reads may repay the bulls of our lips.

Take words with you
    and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
    “Forgive(A) all our sins
and receive us graciously,(B)
    that we may offer the fruit of our lips.[a](C)

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  1. Hosea 14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls

Let the wicked change their ways
    and banish the very thought of doing wrong.
Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them.
    Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.

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Let the wicked forsake(A) their ways
    and the unrighteous their thoughts.(B)
Let them turn(C) to the Lord, and he will have mercy(D) on them,
    and to our God, for he will freely pardon.(E)

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11 Dear brothers and sisters,[a] if I were still preaching that you must be circumcised—as some say I do—why am I still being persecuted? If I were no longer preaching salvation through the cross of Christ, no one would be offended. 12 I just wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 5:11 Greek Brothers; similarly in 5:13.
  2. 5:12 Or castrate themselves, or cut themselves off from you; Greek reads cut themselves off.

11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted?(A) In that case the offense(B) of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators,(C) I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

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Even that question came up only because of some so-called believers there—false ones, really[a]—who were secretly brought in. They sneaked in to spy on us and take away the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. They wanted to enslave us and force us to follow their Jewish regulations.

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  1. 2:4 Greek some false brothers.

This matter arose because some false believers(A) had infiltrated our ranks to spy on(B) the freedom(C) we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.

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10 So why are you now challenging God by burdening the Gentile believers[a] with a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors were able to bear?

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  1. 15:10 Greek disciples.

10 Now then, why do you try to test God(A) by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke(B) that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?

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