For many walk - of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping - that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ,

As many as desire with outward appearance to please carnally, they constrain you to be circumcised, only because they would not suffer persecution with the cross of Christ.

Mine eyes gush out with water, because men keep not thy law.

For the LORD chastised me, and took me by the hand, and warned me, saying unto me that I should not walk in the ways of this people. He said moreover,

O Who will give my head water enough, and a well of tears for mine eyes, that I may weep night and day for the slaughter of my people?

But if ye will not hear me, that give you secret warning, I will mourn from my whole heart for your stubbornness. Piteously will I weep, and the tears shall gush out of mine eyes. For the LORD's flock shall be carried away captive.

Then did I, Nebuchadnezzar, love, magnify and praise the King of heaven: for all his works are true, and his ways right. As for those that go on proudly, he is able to bring them down.

And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept on it,

serving the Lord with all humbleness of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which happened unto me by the layings wait of the Jews,

Moreover, of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things, to draw disciples after them.

that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart.

For the preaching of the cross is, to them that perish, foolishness: but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God.

Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind,

For in great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not to make you sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have most specially unto you.

For these false apostles are deceitful workers, and fashion themselves like unto the apostles of Christ.

Who is sick: and I am not sick? Who is hurt in the faith: and my heart burneth not?

which is nothing else, but that there be some which trouble you, and intend to pervert the gospel of Christ.

But when I saw that they went not the right way after the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before all men, "If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the gentiles, and not as do the Jews: why causest thou the gentiles to live as do the Jews?"

I despise not the grace of God: For if righteousness come of the law, then is Christ died in vain.

envying, murder, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like. Of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in time past, that they which commit such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk; in vanity of their mind,

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, either unclean person, or covetous person, which is the worshipper of images, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.

always in all my prayers for you all, and pray with gladness,

Some there are which preach Christ of envy and strife, and some of goodwill.

that no man go too far and defraud his brother in bargaining, because the Lord is avenger of all such things: as we told you before time, and testified unto you.

We have heard say, no doubt, that there are some which walk among you inordinately, and work not at all, but are busybodies.

namely, them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise the rulers. Presumptuous are they, and stubborn, and fear not to speak evil of them that are in authority;

They are raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, to whom is reserved the mist of darkness forever.

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(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

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Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind,
envying, murder, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like. Of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in time past, that they which commit such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, either unclean person, or covetous person, which is the worshipper of images, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.
that no man go too far and defraud his brother in bargaining, because the Lord is avenger of all such things: as we told you before time, and testified unto you.

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Some there are which preach Christ of envy and strife, and some of goodwill.
For the preaching of the cross is, to them that perish, foolishness: but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God.
which is nothing else, but that there be some which trouble you, and intend to pervert the gospel of Christ.
I despise not the grace of God: For if righteousness come of the law, then is Christ died in vain.
As many as desire with outward appearance to please carnally, they constrain you to be circumcised, only because they would not suffer persecution with the cross of Christ.

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the ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk, and all the kind;
If the priest see that the scab be grown abroad in the skin, let him make him unclean: for it is surely a leprosy.
that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart.
For many of them are all ready turned back, and are gone after Satan.
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