Part 6

006:005 For every man will have to carry his own load.

006:006 But let those who receive instruction in Christian truth share with their instructors all temporal blessings.

006:007 Do not deceive yourselves. God is not to be scoffed at. For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

006:008 He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.

006:009 Let us not abate our courage in doing what is right; for in due time we shall reap a reward, if we do not faint.

006:010 So then, as we have opportunity, let us labour for the good of all, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

006:011 See in what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.

006:012 All who desire to display their zeal for external observances try to compel you to receive circumcision, but their real object is simply to escape being persecuted for the Cross of Christ.

006:013 For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies.

006:014 But as for me, God forbid that I should glory in anything except the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, upon which the world is crucified to me, and I am crucified to the world.

006:015 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only a renewed nature.

006:016 And all who shall regulate their lives by this principle-- may peace and mercy be given to them--and to the true Israel of God.

006:017 From this time onward let no one trouble me; for, as for me, I bear, branded on my body, the scars of Jesus as my Master.

006:018 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits, brethren. Amen.