But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" ??15 We may be Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners,'

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

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but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him.

but glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just;

Blessed are those who wash their robes, that theirs may be the right to the tree of Life, the right to enter the gates of the City!

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Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.

Tell no lies to one another; you have stripped off the old nature with its practices,

but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds ??their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."