Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.

But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

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See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might

make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace,

Living

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

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having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the

elemental things of the world.

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

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‘By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening,

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.