CHAPTER 3
1 Be not deceived with ᵃstrange ᵇdoctrines; nor with old ᶜfables which are unprofitable. For if we still continue to live according to the Jewish law, we do confess ourselves not to have received grace. For even the most ᵈholy ᵉprophets lived according to Christ Jesus.
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4 (By which mystery we have been brought to believe and therefore wait that we may be found the disciples of Jesus Christ, our only master:)
5 How shall we be able to live ᵃdifferent from him whose disciples the very prophets themselves being, did by the spirit expect him as their master.
7 Let us not then be insensible of his ᵃgoodness; for should he have ᵇdealt with us according to our works, we had ᶜnot had a being.
8 Wherefore being become his disciples, let us learn to live according to the rules of Christianity; for whosoever is called by any ᵃother name besides this, he is not of God.
9 ᵃLay aside therefore the old and sour and evil leaven; and be ye ᵇchanged into the new leaven, which is Jesus Christ.
10 Be ye ᵃsalted in him, lest any one among you should be corrupted; for by your savour ye shall be ᵇjudged.
11 It is absurd to name Jesus Christ, and to Judaize. For the Christian religion did not ᵃembrace the Jewish, but the Jewish the Christian; that so every ᵇtongue that believed might be ᶜgathered together unto God.
12 These things, my beloved, I write unto you; not that I know of any among you that ᵃlie under this error; but as one of the ᵇleast among you, I am desirous to forewarn you, that ye fall not into the ᶜsnares of false doctrine.
13 But that ye be fully instructed in the birth, and suffering, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, our hope; which was accomplished in the time of the government of Pontius Pilate, and that most truly and certainly and from which ᵃGod forbid that any among you should be turned aside.