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 \v 5 But not even briefly did we agree with them about circumcision. We resisted them in order that the true good news about Christ might continue to benefit you.
 
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-\v 6 But those who others said were the leaders did not add anything to what I proclaim. Those leaders are important men, but they do not matter to me, because God does not favor certain persons more than others.
+\v 6 But those who others said were the leaders did not add anything to what I proclaim. Those leaders are important men, but they do not matter to me because God does not favor certain persons more than others.
 \v 7 Instead, the leaders understood that God was trusting me to proclaim the good news to the Gentiles, just as Peter was proclaiming the good news to the Jews.
 \v 8 For just as God had empowered Peter to go as an apostle to take God's message to the Jews, he also empowered me to go as an apostle to take his message to the Gentiles.
 
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 \v 26 I say this because you are all God's children because you have trusted in Christ Jesus.
 
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-\v 27 All of you who trust in Christ and were baptized so that you are joined to him and you have taken on the characteristics of Christ's life. 
+\v 27 All of you who trust in Christ and were baptized so that you are joined to him—you have taken on the characteristics of Christ's life. 
 \v 28 If you are believers, it does not matter to God if you are Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free persons, males or females, because all of you are together joined to Christ Jesus.
 \v 29 Furthermore, since you belong to Christ, he makes you into descendants of Abraham, and you will receive everything that God has promised him and us.
 
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 \v 3 Likewise, when we were like young children, we were under the evil rules that everyone in this world lives by. Those rules controlled us like masters control their slaves.
-\v 4 But when the time that God had determined arrived, he sent Jesus, his Son, into the world. Jesus was born to a human mother, and he had to obey the law.
+\v 4 But when the time that God had determined arrived, he sent Jesus his Son into the world. Jesus was born to a human mother, and he had to obey the law.
 \v 5 God sent Jesus to rescue us from the law controlling us. He did this to adopt us as his own children.
 
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-\v 8 When you did not know God, you worshiped gods that really did not really exist. You were their slaves.
+\v 8 When you did not know God, you worshiped gods that did not really exist. You were their slaves.
 \v 9 But now you do know God as your God. Perhaps it would be better, however, to say that now God knows each of you. So why are you returning again to follow the weak and worthless evil rules of this world? You do not really want to become their slaves all over again, do you?
 
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 \v 16 That is why I have become so sad now. You seem to think that I have become your enemy because I have continued to tell the truth about Christ to you.
 
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-\v 17 Those who are insisting on obeying the Jewish laws are trying to get you to follow them, but they are not doing it for your good. They want to keep you away from me, because they want you to follow them, not me.
+\v 17 Those who are insisting on obeying the Jewish laws are trying to get you to follow them, but they are not doing it for your good. They want to keep you away from me because they want you to follow them, not me.
 \v 18 Well, it is good to insist on doing the right things; you should do this always, and not only when I am with you. But make sure it is the right people who are teaching you what to do!
 
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 \v 21 Let me try to explain this again. Some of you desire to obey all the law of God, but do you really pay attention to what the law says?
-\v 22 In the law we read that Abraham became the father of two sons. His female slave, Hagar, bore one son, and his wife Sarah, who was not a slave, bore the other.
-\v 23 Ishmael, the son born by Hagar, the female slave, was conceived naturally. But Isaac, the son born by Sarah, who was not a slave, was conceived miraculously because God had promised Abraham that he would have a son.
+\v 22 In the law we read that Abraham became the father of two sons. His female slave Hagar bore one son, and his wife Sarah, who was not a slave, bore the other son.
+\v 23 Ishmael, the son born by Hagar the female slave, was conceived naturally. But Isaac, the son born by Sarah, who was not a slave, was conceived miraculously because God had promised Abraham that he would have a son.
 
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-\v 24 Now these two women symbolize two covenants. God made the first covenant with the people of Israel at Mount Sinai. That covenant requires the Israelites to live like a slave to the law. So Hagar, the female slave, symbolizes this covenant.
-\v 25 So Hagar symbolizes Mount Sinai, in the land of Arabia. But Hagar also symbolizes the city of Jerusalem as it is today. This is because Jerusalem is like a slave mother: She and all her children—that is, her people—are like slaves, because they all must obey the law that God gave to Israel at Mount Sinai.
+\v 24 Now these two women symbolize two covenants. God made the first covenant with the people of Israel at Mount Sinai. That covenant requires the Israelites to live like a slave to the law. So Hagar the female slave symbolizes this covenant.
+\v 25 So Hagar symbolizes Mount Sinai in the land of Arabia. But Hagar also symbolizes the city of Jerusalem as it is today. This is because Jerusalem is like a slave mother: She and all her children—that is, her people—are like slaves, because they all must obey the law that God gave to Israel at Mount Sinai.
 
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-\v 26 But there is a new Jerusalem in heaven, and that city is like a mother of all us who believe in Christ, and that city is free!
+\v 26 But there is a new Jerusalem in heaven, and that city is like a mother of all of us who believe in Christ, and that city is free!
 \v 27 That new Jerusalem will have many more people than the old Jerusalem. This is because the prophet Isaiah wrote,
 \q "Be glad, you women who have no children!
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 \v 30 But these are the words in the scriptures: "The son of the woman who was not a slave will inherit what his father owns. The slave boy will inherit nothing. So send away from this place the female slave and her son!"
-\v 31 My fellow believers, we are not children who have a slave woman as our mother, but we are the children who are born from a woman who was free, and so are we are free too!
+\v 31 My fellow believers, we are not children who have a slave woman as our mother, but we are the children who are born from a woman who was free, and so we are also free!
 
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-\v 1 Christ set us free from the law so that it may control us no longer. So stop anyone who says you are still slaves to the law, and do not let the law control you like slaves again.
-\v 2 Consider very carefully what I, Paul, an apostle, now tell you. If you let anyone circumcise you, what Christ has done for you will not help you at all!
+\v 1 Christ set us free from the law, so that it may control us no longer. So stop anyone who says you are still slaves to the law, and do not let the law control you like slaves again.
+\v 2 Consider very carefully what I, Paul an apostle, now tell you. If you let anyone circumcise you, what Christ has done for you will not help you at all!
 
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 \v 3 Once again I solemnly declare to every man whom they have circumcised: All of them must obey the law perfectly for God to declare them good in his sight.
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 \v 5 We whom God's Spirit enables to trust in Christ are confidently waiting for the time when God will declare us good in His sight.
-\v 6 God is not concerned whether we are circumcised or not circumcised. Instead, God is concerned  that the trust we have in Christ will result in the love we have for other people.
+\v 6 God is not concerned whether we are circumcised or not circumcised. Instead, God is concerned that the trust we have in Christ will result in the love we have for other people.
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 \v 7 You were following Christ so well! Who stopped you from obeying his true message?
 \v 8 God, the one who chose you, is not the one who is persuading you to think like this!
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 \v 10 I am certain that the Lord Jesus will keep you from believing in anything other than his true good news. God will certainly punish anyone who is trying to confuse you by teaching you this false message.
 
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-\v 11 But, my fellow believers, maybe someone is saying that I still teach that you must let them circumcise you. I certainly taught that before I followed Christ, but I am not teaching that any longer. But what they are saying cannot be true; otherwise, no one would be persecuting me now. No, I tell you that if people think they have to be circumcised to follow Christ, then the fact that Christ died on the cross no longer make any difference to them.
+\v 11 But, my fellow believers, maybe someone is saying that I still teach that you must let them circumcise you. I certainly taught that before I followed Christ, but I am not teaching that any longer. But what they are saying cannot be true; otherwise, no one would be persecuting me now. No, I tell you that if people think they have to be circumcised to follow Christ, then the fact that Christ died on the cross no longer makes any difference to them.
 \v 12 I wish that those who are confusing you would go all the way and castrate themselves!
 
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 \v 6 If fellow believers teach you the truth about God, then you should share your possessions with them.
 \v 7 You should not deceive yourselves. Remember that no one can deceive God. Just like a farmer will harvest exactly the kind of crop that he plants, God will pay back people according to what they have done.
-\v 8 God will punish eternally those who commit the sins that they wish to. But those who please God's Spirit will live forever with God because of what God's Spirit does for them.
+\v 8 God will eternally punish those who commit the sins that they wish to. But those who please God's Spirit will live forever with God because of what God's Spirit does for them.
 
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-\v 9 But we should not tire of doing what pleases God, because eventually, at the time that God has determined, we will receive a reward, if we do not stop doing the good things that we have been doing.
+\v 9 But we should not tire of doing what pleases God because eventually, at the time that God has determined, we will receive a reward if we do not stop doing the good things that we have been doing.
 \v 10 So whenever we have opportunities, we should do what is good to all people. But especially we should do what is good to all our fellow believers.
 
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 \v 11 I am now writing this last part of this letter to you in my own handwriting. Notice the large letters with which I am now writing.
-\v 12 Those Jewish believers who require that you must be circumcised before God would save you. But they are doing this just so that the others will not persecute them for believing that Christ died on the cross to save us.
+\v 12 Those Jewish believers require that you must be circumcised before God would save you. But they are doing this just so that the others will not persecute them for believing that Christ died on the cross to save us.
 \v 13 Even those who are circumcised do not obey all of the Law. They want you to be circumcised so they can boast that you obeyed the Jewish requirement of circumcision. They want you to trust in your circumcision rather that to trust in Christ's salvation.
 
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