For you endure if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone strikes you in the face.
I gave My back to the strikers, and My cheeks to pluckers; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
He gives his cheek to Him who strikes him; he is filled with reproach.
who devour widows' houses, and as a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive greater condemnation.
And to him who strikes you on the one cheek, also offer the other. And to him who takes away your garment, do not forbid your tunic also.
Even until this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.
Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.
pulling down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ;
But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ.
But let it be so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, I caught you with bait.
But because of those false brothers stealing in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus; they desiring to enslave us;
For Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in slavery with her children.
Even so we, when we were infants, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
But now, knowing God, but rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you again desire to slave anew?
Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage.
I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will think nothing else, but that he troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
As many as desire to look well in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, those who mind earthly things.)
For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.