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Paul's Final Appeal and Warning
Galatians 6:11-17
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Look at the large letters I use as I close in my own handwriting.
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It is those who want to look good outwardly who are trying to get you to be circumcised. The only reason they are doing it is to escape persecution for preaching about the Messiah’s execution-stake.
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For even those who are getting circumcised don’t observe the Torah. On the contrary, they want you to get circumcised so that they can boast of having gained your adherence.
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But as for me, Heaven forbid that I should boast about anything except the execution-stake of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah! Through him, as far as I am concerned, the world has been put to death on the stake; and through him, as far as the world is concerned, I have been put to death on the stake.
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For neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is being a new creation.
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And as many as order their lives by this rule, shalom upon them and mercy, and upon the Isra’el of God!
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From now on, I don’t want anyone to give me any more tsuris, because I have scars on my body to prove that I belong to Yeshua!
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