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But what I am doing, I will also do, in order that I may remove the opportunity of those who want an opportunity, that they may be found just as also we [are] in what they are boasting about.

Verse ConceptsUnceasingAlways Being ActivePersistencerecognition

Again I say, do not let anyone think I am foolish. But indeed, if [you do], accept me even as foolish, in order that I also may boast a little.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePaul's BoastingBoasting

I say [this] to [my] shame, namely, that we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares to [boast]--I am speaking in foolishness--I also dare to [boast].

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeopleBeing Strongassertiveness

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed {forever}, knows that I am not lying.

Verse ConceptsEternal PraiseNot LyingRelationship Of Father And Son

that he was caught up to paradise and heard words not to be spoken, which [it is] not permitted for a person to speak.

Verse ConceptsEarsHearing God's WordTaken To Heaven

For if I want to boast, I will not be foolish, because I will be telling the truth, but I am refraining, so that no one can credit to me more than what he sees [in] me or hears anything from me,

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfOverestimationFoolish PeopleSeeing PeoplePaul's Boasting

even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself.

Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofEnjoyment, Lack OfBodyGod, Purpose OfMinistry, Qualifications ForPainSatan, Kingdom OfThornsWeakness, PhysicalBeneficial Afflictions For HumilityAfflictions, Benefits OfSatan, Work OfAfflictions Of MinistersDamage To The BodySigns Of Possible Demon PossessionSatanharassment

{For in what respect are you made worse off} more than the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Verse ConceptsPaul, Apostle To GentilesForgive One AnotherForgiving YourselfForgiving Others Who Hurt YouParents Being Wrong

Have you been thinking all this time that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and all [these things], dear friends, [are] for your edification.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingEdification, Means OfBuilding Up The ChurchGod Seeing All PeopleMan Defendingcommunionreality

[I am afraid] lest [when I] come again my God will humiliate me {in your presence}, and I will grieve over many of those who sinned previously and have not repented because of their impurity and sexual immorality and licentiousness that they have practiced.

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessAdultery, Results OfDisappointments, Examples OfHumilitySanctification, Means And ResultsSelf IndulgenceSexual Sin, Nature OfLasciviousnessInsensibilityAvoid ImmoralitySexual Immorality

I have already said when was present the second time, and [although I] am absent now also say in advance to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare [anyone],

Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divinePaul, Life OfNot Sparing

since you are demanding proof that Christ, who [is] not weak toward you, but is powerful among you, is speaking in me.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofPower Through GodProofsSpeaking As From God

And I hope that you will recognize that we are not unqualified!

Verse ConceptsGenuinenessexams

Now we pray to God that you not do wrong in any way, not that we are seen as approved, but that you do what is good, even [though] we are [seen] as though unqualified.

Verse ConceptsCauses of failure inPraying For Othersexams

Because of this, I am writing these [things] [although I] am absent, in order that [when I] am present I may not have to act severely according to the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

Verse ConceptsApostles, Authority In ChurchHuman Authority, Nature OfAuthority, Responsibilities OfMinisters, Description OfSharpnessBuilding Up The ChurchWriting LettersAuthority Of DisciplesDestruction Of The ChurchGone AwayStrictnessIn Men's Presence

not that [there] is a different [gospel], except there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

Verse ConceptsChaosThe Purity Of The GospelHurt And Betrayalproblems

For I make known to you, brothers, the gospel that has been proclaimed by me, that it is not {of human origin}.

Verse ConceptsPerspectiverelaxation

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,

Verse ConceptsPaul, Life OfZeal, Without KnowledgeDestruction Of The ChurchThe Church UniversalChurch Of GodPersecutionchristianitypasttrying

to reveal his Son in me in order that I would proclaim the gospel [about] him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not consult with flesh and blood,

Verse ConceptsAffirmative ActionMan's Teaching

(Now [the things] which I am writing to you, behold, [I assure you] before God that I am not lying.)

Verse ConceptsWriting LettersNot LyingTelling The Truthlieing

but I was unknown {in person} to the churches of Judea [that are] in Christ,

Verse ConceptsChurch, Examples OfNot Knowing People

and they were only hearing, "The one formerly persecuting us is now proclaiming the faith that formerly he was attempting to destroy,"

Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of Beliefsenemies, of Jesus ChristGospel, Transmission OfPersecution, Forms Of

Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtAthleticsThe Christian RaceHeraldPrivacyPrizesResponseRunningInformation In SecretUseless LabourRaceFutile Faith

Now [this was] because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us,

Verse Concepts4th of julySpiesToleranceSpyingFalse PeopleSubject To EvilChristian LibertyReligious FreedomFreedom

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain continually with you.

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In NtA Short TimeThe Truth Of The GospelThe Purity Of The GospelShort Time For ActionGod's Word Is TrueSurrender

But these, [when they] saw that I had been entrusted [with] the gospel to the uncircumcision, just as Peter to the circumcision

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofPreaching, Importance OfSelf ConfidenceStewardshipEntrustingThe Gospel To Jew And Gentile

and [when] James and Cephas and John--those thought to be pillars--acknowledged the grace given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right [hand] of fellowship, in order that we [should go] to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In Christian ServiceFellowship, Among BelieversApostles, Function In Early ChurchGrace, And Christian LifePaul, Apostle To GentilesPillarsCompanionshipMissionary WorkMetaphorical PillarsBlessings For The Right HandThe Gospel To Jew And Gentilepartnership

and the rest of the Jews also joined in [this] hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with them in [their] hypocrisy.

Verse ConceptsBarnabasIsrael HardenedShowing HypocrisyHypocrisy

But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of [them] all, "If you, [although you] are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"

Verse ConceptsOppressing ForeignersThe Truth Of The GospelThe Purity Of The GospelJews Separate From GentilesNo CompulsionWorry And Stressacting

For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

Verse ConceptsLaw, And GospelSpiritual Life, Described ByDead To SinLiving The Life

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who does not abide by all [the things] that are written in the book of the law to do them."

Verse ConceptsCurses, DivineAtonementBook of the LawAffirmative ActionBible, Names OfTrusting In WorksThe Curse Of The LawUnder The LawWorks Of The LawBreaking The Ten Commandmentslawcursesobeying

Now I am saying this: the law, that came after four hundred and thirty years, does not revoke a covenant previously ratified by God, in order to nullify the promise.

Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Law Given To Israelthe Law of moses

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

Verse ConceptsLaw, Purpose OfSalvation Not By WorksGod OpposingFar Be It!God's Promise To AbrahamJustified By WorksLife Through Keeping The Law

But you know that because of an illness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesInfirmitiesThe Gospel PreachedSicknessWeaknessIllness

So where [is] your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes [and] given [them] to me!

Verse ConceptsPlucking OutPositive ThinkingAffections Should Not Grow Cold

They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them [zealously].

Verse ConceptsExcommunicationmotives

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the female slave and one by the free woman.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryAbraham, New Testament ReferencesTwo Sons

But just as at that time the [child] born according to human descent persecuted the [child born] according to the Spirit, so also now.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesPersecution, Nature OfLife In A Material WorldThe Promise Of A BabyPersecutionSatanic Hatred

Look! I, Paul, tell you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing!

Verse ConceptsAbolitionSalvation Not By WorksValue

And again I testify to every man who becomes circumcised, that he is under obligation to keep the whole law.

Verse ConceptsNecessityCircumcisionUnder The Lawthe Law of moses

I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will think nothing different, but the one who is confusing you {will pay the penalty}, whoever he may be.

Verse ConceptsConfusionTroubling Groups Of PeopleRelationship Troubles

Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionOffenceNecessity Of CircumcisionSignificance Of Christ's CrucifixionPersecution

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, [things] which I am telling you [in advance], just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Verse ConceptsAdulterersAlcoholWatchfulness, Of LeadersExclusionRevelryAlcohol ConsumptionWarning IndividualsThings LikeDo Not Get DrunkDrunkennessSexual ImmoralityBeing GayGay Marriagepracticealcoholismdrunkards

As many as are wanting to make a good showing in the flesh, these are attempting to compel you to be circumcised, only so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessOutward AppearanceLiving For The MaterialNecessity Of CircumcisionOutward CompulsionSignificance Of Christ's CrucifixionPersecutionThe Crosstrying

For not even those who are circumcised observe the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised in order that they may boast in your flesh.

Verse ConceptsStrength, HumanNecessity Of CircumcisionThey Do Not Keep CommandsBoasting

that he caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight,

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in [the] flesh, the so-called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in [the] flesh, made by hands,

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBodyLiving For The MaterialNecessity Of Circumcision

Now "he ascended," what is [it], except that he also descended to the lower regions of the earth?

Verse ConceptsDeep ThingsChrist Going Down

The one who descended himself is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order that he might fill all [things].

Verse ConceptsUniverseExaltation Of ChristBeing Filled With GodChrist Going DownThe Earth Filled With GodGoing To Heavenorder

This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,

Verse ConceptsConformityThe Carnal MindWorldly Pleasures, Characteristic Of The WickedNot Imitating EvilUseless PeopleWhat Foreigners Are LikeGentiles

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