So, my brothers, you too in the body of Christ have ended your relation to the law, so that you may be married to another husband, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

For through the law I myself have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God.

But may it never be mine to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world!

So then, since Christ has suffered in our physical form, you too must arm yourselves with the same determination. For whoever suffers in his physical form has done with sin,

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Take care that nobody captures you by the idle fancies of his so-called philosophy, following human tradition and the world's crude notions instead of Christ.

through His human nature He has put a stop to the hostility between us, namely, the law with its commands and decrees, in order to create one new humanity out of the two parties and so make peace through union with Himself, and in one body

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If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

For though I do still live the life of a physical human creature, I am not waging this war in accordance with physical human standards,

You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

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canceled the note that stood against us, with its requirements, and has put it out of our way by nailing it to the cross.

So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions,

You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.

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But fresh wine must be put into new bottles.