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18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law.(A)

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14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.(A)

Slaves of Righteousness

15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

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14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.(A)

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25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.

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20 I walk in the way of righteousness,
    along the paths of justice,

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in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.(A) And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our[a] hearts, crying, “Abba![b] Father!”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.6 Other ancient authorities read your
  2. 4.6 Aramaic for Father

27 I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.(A)

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The Works of the Flesh

16 Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.(A)

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In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.(A)

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13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.(A)

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16 Draw near to me; hear this!
    From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
    from the time it came to be I have been there.
And now the Lord God has sent me and his spirit.(A)

17 Thus says the Lord,
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches you how to succeed,
    who leads you in the way you should go.(B)
18 O that you had paid attention to my commandments!
    Then your prosperity would have been like a river
    and your success like the waves of the sea;(C)

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20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.[a](A) 21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and you know that no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ?[b] This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also.(B) 24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.(C) 25 And this is what he has promised us,[c] eternal life.(D)

26 I write these things to you concerning those who would deceive you. 27 As for you, the anointing that you received from him abides in you, so you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, abide in him.[d](E)

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  1. 2.20 Other ancient authorities read you know all things
  2. 2.22 Or the Messiah
  3. 2.25 Other ancient authorities read you
  4. 2.27 Or it

for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.(A)

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this means understanding that the law is laid down not for the righteous but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers,(A)

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Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
    for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
    for to you I lift up my soul.(A)

Save me, O Lord, from my enemies;
    I have fled to you for refuge.[a](B)
10 Teach me to do your will,
    for you are my God.
Let your good spirit lead me
    on a level path.(C)

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  1. 143.9 Heb ms Gk: MT to you I have hidden

Good and upright is the Lord;
    therefore he instructs sinners in the way.(A)
He leads the humble in what is right
    and teaches the humble his way.(B)

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Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
    teach me your paths.(A)
Lead me in your truth and teach me,
    for you are the God of my salvation;
    for you I wait all day long.(B)

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12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are obligated, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

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