Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

For through the law I am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

But in no wise should I glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Since the Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, be ye also armed with the same thought; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

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Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, according to the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

abolishing in his flesh the enmity, which was the law of commandments in the order of rites, to edify in himself the two in one new man, making peace,

Living

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them thy 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 after the flesh

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

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blotting out the bill of the decrees that was against us, which was contrary to us and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross ,

Even so we, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements of the world,

Be not taken out of the way with diverse and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with foods which have not profited those that have been occupied with them.

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And for these ye shall be unclean: whoever touches their carcase shall be unclean until the evening.

But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.