Letters to the Churches

(For Agar or Sina is a mountaine in Arabia, and it answereth to Hierusalem which nowe is) and she is in bondage with her children.

But Hierusalem, which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all.

For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children: breake forth, and cry, thou that trauailest not: for the desolate hath many moe children, then she which hath an husband.

Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promise.

But as then hee that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the Spirit, euen so it is nowe.

But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.

Then brethren, we are not children of the seruant, but of the free woman.

Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.

Beholde, I Paul say vnto you, that if yee be circumcised, Christ shall profite you nothing.

For I testifie againe to euery man, which is circumcised, that he is bound to keepe the whole Lawe.

Ye are abolished from Christ: whosoeuer are iustified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.

For we through the Spirit waite for the hope of righteousnes through faith.

For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision auaileth any thing, neither vncircumcision, but faith which worketh by loue.

Ye did runne well: who did let you, that ye did not obey the trueth?

It is not the perswasion of him that calleth you.

A litle leauen doeth leauen the whole lumpe.

I haue trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but hee that troubleth you, shall beare his condemnation, whosoeuer he be.

And brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why doe I yet suffer persecution? Then is the slaunder of the crosse abolished.

Would to God they were euen cut off, which doe disquiet you.

For brethren, ye haue bene called vnto libertie: onely vse not your libertie as an occasion vnto the flesh, but by loue serue one another.

For all the Lawe is fulfilled in one worde, which is this, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.

If ye bite and deuoure one another, take heede least ye be consumed one of another.

Then I say, Walke in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lustes of the flesh.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye can not doe the same things that ye would.

And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not vnder the Lawe.