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³¹Do not turn aside to astrologers, nor consult with soothsayers, so as to be polluted through them. I am the Lord your God.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, ²⁰the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, ²¹envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

²⁴You shall not adore their gods, nor worship them. You shall not do their works, but you shall destroy them and break apart their statues.

²⁴God is Spirit. And so, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”

¹Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but charity builds up. ²But if anyone considers himself to know anything, he does not yet know in the way that he ought to know. ³For if anyone loves God, he is known by him. ⁴But as to the foods that are immolated to idols, we know that an idol in the world is nothing, and that no one is God, except One. ⁵For although there are things that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (if one even considers there to be many gods and many lords) ⁶yet we know that there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things are, and in whom we are, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and by whom we are.

²⁹that you abstain from things immolated to idols, and from blood, and from what has been suffocated, and from fornication. You will do well to keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.”

¹⁸For I call as witnesses all listeners of the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone will have added to these, God will add upon him the afflictions written in this book.

⁶He establishes his ascension into heaven, and he has founded his bundle on the earth. He calls the waters of the ocean, and pours them over the face of the earth. The Lord is his name. ⁷Sons of Israel, are you not like the sons of the Ethiopians to me, says the Lord? Did I not cause Israel to rise up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene?

¹And climbing into a boat, he crossed the sea, and he arrived at his own city. ²And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Be strengthened in faith, son; your sins are forgiven you.” ³And behold, some of the scribes said within themselves, “He is blaspheming.” ⁴And when Jesus had perceived their thoughts, he said: “Why do you think such evil in your hearts? ⁵Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise up and walk?’ ⁶But, so that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” he then said to the paralytic, “Rise up, take up your bed, and go into your house.”

³You shall not act according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you have lived; nor shall you behave according to the habit of the region of Canaan, into which I will lead you; neither shall you walk in their ordinances.