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Keep in Step with the Holy Spirit!

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For  freedom Christ Jesus has  set us free;  stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to  a yoke of  slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that  if you accept circumcision,  Christ Jesus will be of no advantage to you.   I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that  he is obligated to keep the whole law .   You are  severed from Jesus of Nazareth,  you who would be justified  by the law;  you have fallen away from grace.   For we through the Holy Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly  wait for the hope of righteousness.   For in Christ Jesus   neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but  only faith working through love . You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying  the truth? This persuasion is not from  him who calls you.   A little leaven leavens the whole lump .   I have confidence in the Lord that you wil...

"The Fruit of the Holy Spirit, biblical"

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For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion of the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this:  “ You shall love your neighbor as yourself ” But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you not be consumed one by another.   This I say then:  "Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh". For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would.   But if you are manage by the Holy Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest , and they are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,  idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, rivalry, wrath, strife, sedition, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. About these things I tell you again , as I...