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Galatians 4:17

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They make much of you, but for no good purpose; they want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.

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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.

For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you.

Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

For a good purpose it is always good to be made much of, and not only when I am present with you.

They all look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.




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