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See the size of the handwriting which I myself have made use of in writing to you.

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Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

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Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

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But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

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For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

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And on all who are guided by this rule be peace and mercy, and on the Israel of God.

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From this time on let no man be a trouble to me because my body is marked with the marks of Jesus.

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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. So be it.