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22For it has been written that Abraham had two sons, one from the slave girl and one from the freewoman. 23But [indeed] the one from the slave girl was born according to the flesh, and the one from the free-woman through the promise. 24These things are told allegorically;
2Look, I Paul tell you that if you come to be circumcised the Anointed will profit you nothing. 3And again I attest to every man who becomes circumcised that he is obliged to perform the whole of the Law.
10In the Lord, I am confident in you that you will be of no other mind; but the one who is perturbing you, whoever he may be, will bear the judgment. 11Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? The scandal of the cross, then, has been annulled. 12Would that they who are causing you agitation might just castrate themselves!
2Bear one another’s burdens and thus you will fulfill the law of the Anointed. 3For, if anyone thinks himself to be something while being nothing, he is deceiving himself. 4But let each test his own work, and then he will have his boast in himself alone, and not in someone else; 5for each will bear his own burden.
For whatever a man may sow, this he will also reap; 8because the one sowing in his own flesh will reap perishability from the flesh, but the one sowing in the spirit will reap life in the Age from the spirit.
12As many as want to be in good countenance in the flesh, these are urging you to be circumcised, just so that they are not persecuted for the cross of the Anointed. 13For they who are circumcised do not keep the Law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.
28So [too] the husbands ought to love their wives like their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29for no one ever hated his own flesh, but rather nourishes it and keeps it safely warm, as the Anointed does for the assembly, 30because we are members of his body [and of his flesh and of his bones].
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two shall be for one flesh.” 32This mystery is a great one, but I am speaking about the Anointed and the assembly.
11Put on God’s panoply, so that you are able to withstand the Slanderer’s wiles, 12because we are wrestling not against blood and flesh, but against the Archons, against the Powers, against the Cosmic Rulers of this [age’s] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the celestial places.
Notwithstanding which, the Anointed is proclaimed in every way—whether in pretense or in truth—and in this I rejoice; yet I shall rejoice also 19because I know that, through your supplication, this will result for me in salvation, and provision by the Spirit of Jesus the Anointed, 20as accords with my ardent expectation and hope that I shall be made ashamed by nothing, but that instead the Anointed shall be magnified in my body, with all boldness—as always, so also now—whether by life or by death.
This is a gorgeous sentence.
29because for the Anointed’s sake it has been granted you not only to have faith in him, but also to suffer on his behalf, 30having the same struggle that you saw in me, and that you now hear of in me.
5Be of that disposition in yourselves that was also in the Anointed One Jesus, 6who, subsisting in a god’s form, did not deem existing in the manner of a godb a thing to be grasped,c 7but instead emptied himself,d taking a slave’s form, coming to be in a likeness of human beings; and, being found in appearance as a human being,e 8he reducedf himself, becoming obedient all the way to death, and a death by a cross.
17But, if indeed I am a votary libation poured out upon the sacrifice and the liturgy of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice along with all of you; 18and you likewise: rejoice and rejoice along with me.
