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To: Old Mountain man

That would be Galatians 5. You would also like Chapter 6.

Galatians 5
 
 1.  Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
 2.  Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
 3.  For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
 4.  Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
 5.  For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
 6.  For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
 7.  Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
 8.  This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
 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.
 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 you.
 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, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
 15.  But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
 16.  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
 17.  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
 18.  But if ye be led 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,
 20.  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
 21.  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
 22.  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
 23.  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
 24.  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
 25.  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
 26.  Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
 
I'd tend to think that Chapter One is quite telling; too.
 
Galatians 1
 
 1.  Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
 2.  And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
 3.  Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
 4.  Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
 5.  To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 6.  I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
 7.  Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
 8.  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.
 9.  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.
 10.  For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
 11.  But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
 12.  For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
 13.  For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
 14.  And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
 15.  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
 16.  To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
 17.  Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
 18.  Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
 19.  But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
 20.  Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
 21.  Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
 22.  And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
 23.  But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
 24.  And they glorified God in me.
 
 
and these...
 
Galatians 3
 
 1.  O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
 2.  This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
 3.  Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

952 posted on 10/26/2007 11:18:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

And your point? You saw the commandment to love one another. Love is a verb. Action word. Requires action.


960 posted on 10/26/2007 1:07:32 PM PDT by Old Mountain man (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!)
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