What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.

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Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.

So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

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Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above.

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.

Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

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be at peace with all men, if possible, so far as that depends on you.

For God's Reign does not show itself in talk but in power.

to preserve the unity of the Spirit by binding peace upon yourselves.