but just as in the old days the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit, so it is still to-day.
I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth!
If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.
but while the son of the slave-woman was born by the flesh, the son of the free-woman was born by the promise.
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love.
Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm.
Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;