because some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak ¹  and his speech is of no account.” ² 

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. ¹ 

For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave ¹  it to Abraham through the promise.

Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, ¹  is no different from a slave, though he is the owner ²  of everything.

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are ¹  a son, then you are also an heir through God. ² 

I beg you, brothers and sisters, ¹  become like me, because I have become like you. You have done me no wrong!

They court you eagerly, ¹  but for no good purpose; ²  they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly. ³ 

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

I am confident ¹  in the Lord that you will accept no other view. ²  But the one who is confusing ³  you will pay the penalty, ⁴  whoever he may be.

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

So I say this, and insist ¹  in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility ²  of their thinking. ³ 

For no one has ever hated his own body ¹  but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

Finally, my brothers and sisters, ¹  rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.

Now on the topic of brotherly love ¹  you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

Now on the topic of times and seasons, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  you have no need for anything to be written to you.

See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in your speech, conduct, love, faithfulness, ¹  and purity.

No widow should be put on the list ¹  unless ²  she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband, ³ 

So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us. ¹ 

He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.