When He reached the other side, in the district of Gadara, there faced Him two men, who were under the power of demons, who were just coming out from the tombs. They were such terrors that nobody could pass that way.

In this way we shall know by experience that we are on the side of the truth, and satisfy our consciences in God's sight,

Now a priest happened to be going that way, but when he saw him, he went by on the other side of the road.

about His Son, who on the physical side became a descendant of David, and on the holy, spiritual side

Besides all this, between you and us there stands fixed a great chasm, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot, nor can they cross from your side to us.'

But now God's way of giving men right standing with Himself has come to light; a way without connection with the law, and yet a way to which the law and the prophets testify.

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

But now we have been freed from our relation to the law; we have ended our relation to that by which we once were held in bonds, so that we may serve in a new spiritual way and not in the old literalistic way.

For they were ignorant of God's way of right standing and were trying to set up one of their own, and so would not surrender to God's way of right standing.

But I say this by way of concession, not by way of command.

So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

For instance, when you are on the way to court with your opponent, take the utmost pains on the way to get entirely rid of him, so that he may not rush you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the sheriff, and the sheriff put you in prison.