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8 This persuasion cometh not of him "that calleth 5 you.

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9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded : but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment,' whosoever he be.

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3 who did drive you back? A. V. counsel. Wi. Co. Ma. Cr. called. Ham. Whit. 6 towards. Ham. 7 condemnation. Gen. Ham.

whom thou hast sent. 1 THES. i. 3: Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. do. iii. 6: Timotheus-brought us good tidings of your faith and charity. JAMES, ii. 14, 17, 18, 20, 22: What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Seest thou how faith wrought with his [Abraham's] works, and by works was faith made perfect? ǎ JOHN, iii. 23: This is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

1 See on 1 COR. ix. 24.

m GAL. iii. 1: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth?

1 COR. i. 9: God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. GAL. i. 6: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel. 2 THES. ii. 14: Whereunto he called you by our Gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 PET. i. 15: As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. do. v. 10: The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus.

• See on 1 COR. v. 6.

P See on 2 Cor. ii. 3.
See on GAL. i. 7.

2 COR. X. 6: Having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

11 And I, brethren, if I yet 'preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the "offence of the cross ceased.

12 I would they were even cut off which " trouble 10 you.

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13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word,11 even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

15 But if ye bite 12 and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

8 But I. Ham. Pu. 9 separated. Ma. Cr. 10 unsettle. Ham. "I saying. Pu. cominandment. Ne.: 12 calumniate. Whit.

GAL. vi. 12.

1 COR. xv. 30: Why stand we in jeopardy every hour? GAL. iv. 29: do. vi. 17.

" 1 COR. i. 23: We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness.

Jos. vii. 25: Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. 1 COR. v. 13: Put away from among yourselves that wicked person. GAL. i. 8, 9: But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

y 1 Cor. ix. 19: Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. GAL. vi. 2. See on JOHN, xiii. 34.

2 MAT. vii. 12: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets. do. xxii. 39, 40: And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. JAMES, ii. 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture,. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well. See on JOHN, xiii. 34.

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16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil 13 the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh and these are a contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye beled of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, · which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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b Ver. 25. Roм. viii. 4, 12: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. See on Roм. xiii. 14.

ROM. vii. 23: I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. do. viii. 6, 7 : To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

d Roм. vii. 15, 19: That which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

e ROM. vi. 14: Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. do. viii. 2: The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

'JAMES, iii. 14, 15: But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. See on 1 COR. vi. 9.

lings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that 1they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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18 kindness. Ham. Pu. 19 faithfulness. Co. fidelity. Dod. 20 the law is not against such. Ham. 21 vices. Wi. Rh. appetites. Ma. passions.

A. V. 22 desires. Co.

See on 1 COR. vi. 9.

m See on JOHN, xv. 2, 5.

COL. iii. 12: Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering. JAMES, iii. 17: But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

ROM. XV. 14: I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

P1 COR. xiii. 7: [Charity] believeth all things, hopeth all things.

9 ĞAL. iii. 19: Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come. 1 TIM. i. 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient.

ROM. vi. 6: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. do. xiii: 14: But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh,' to fulfil the lusts thereof. 1 PET. ii. 11: Dearly beloved, Í beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. See on ROM. vi. 2.

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CHAP. VI.

1 He moveth them to deal mildly with a brother that hath slipped, 2 and to bear one another's burden: 6 to be liberal to their teachers, 9 and not weary of well doing: 12 he showeth what they intend that preach circumcision: 14 he glorieth in nothing, save in the cross of Christ.

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BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness;2 considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

I although. A. V. 2 lenity. Rh.

after the Spirit. They that are after .the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they

things of the Spirit.

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CHAP. VI.

a Rom. xiv. 1: Him that is weak in the faith receive you. do. xv. 1: We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. HEB. xii. 13: Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

b1 Cor. ii. 15: He that is spiritual judgeth all things. do. iii. 1 I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

ECCLUS. viii. 5: Reproach not a man that turneth from sin, but remember that we are all worthy of punishment. JAMES, V. 19, 20; Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

d See on 2 TIM. ii. 25.

1 COR. vii. 5: Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time-and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. do. x. 12: Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

fROM. XV. 1: The words under ver. 1. GAL. v. 13: 1 THES. v. 14: Warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

See on JOHN, xiii. 13-15, 34.