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This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.
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We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.
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When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?
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There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
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His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
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But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
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But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
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Freedom in Christ
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
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You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
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Life by the Spirit
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.