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2 Corinthians 11:20

James Moffatt - New Testament

You put up with a man who assumes control of your souls, with a man who spends your money, with a man who dupes you, with a man who gives himself airs, with a man who flies in your face.

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There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again.

with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;

(Not that we lord it over your faith — no, we co-operate for your joy: you have a standing of your own in the faith.)

If a man strikes you on the one cheek, offer him the other as well: if anyone takes your coat, do not deny him your shirt as well;

We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);

Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh — it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

I feel persuaded in the Lord that you will not go wrong. But he who unsettles you will have to meet his doom, no matter who he is.

for mount Sinai is away in Arabia. She corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for the latter is in servitude with her children.

To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.

But let that pass, you say; I was not a burden to you, no, but I was clever enough to dupe you with my tricks? Was I?




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