… if …
Summary: A short little word can mean a lot, especially when used as a condition for Christ’s redemption.
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But now he has reconciled you [to God] by Christ’s physical body through death …
Summary: The means of reconciliation is not an intellectual exercise. Rather, it is an act of love so profound that it blinds us to anything else.
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In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—
Summary: Paul leads us into a review of what it means to love as God loves us.
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Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction;
Summary: A single meditation on this passage seems insufficient. The whole of human history is a testimony to the truth of Paul’s statement.
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