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 \v 3 I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will kindly help you and give you peace.
-\v 4 Christ sacrificed himself to God for our sins in order to take us away from this world in which people act in such evil ways. He did this because God, our Father, wanted him to.
+\v 4 Christ sacrificed himself to God for our sins in order to take us away from this world in which people act in such evil ways. He did this because God our Father wanted him to.
 \v 5 Because that is true, let us now praise God forever and ever.
 
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 \v 21 After I left Jerusalem, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
 \v 22 At that time believers in the Christian congregations who were in the province of Judea still had never seen me.
-\v 23 They only heard others keep saying, "Paul, the one who in the past was doing violent things to us, is now proclaiming the same good news that we believe and he had been trying to stop!"
+\v 23 They only heard others keep saying, "Paul, the one who in the past was doing violent things to us, is now proclaiming the same good news that we believe and that he had been trying to stop!"
 \v 24 So they kept praising God because of what had happened to me.
 
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 \v 6 But those who others said were the leaders did not add anything to what I proclaim. Those leaders are important men, but they do not matter to me, because God does not favor certain persons more than others.
 \v 7 Instead, the leaders understood that God was trusting me to proclaim the good news to the Gentiles, just as Peter was proclaiming the good news to the Jews.
-\v 8 That is, just as God had empowered Peter to go as an apostle to take God's message to the Jews, he also empowered me to go as an apostle to take his message to the Gentiles.
+\v 8 For just as God had empowered Peter to go as an apostle to take God's message to the Jews, he also empowered me to go as an apostle to take his message to the Gentiles.
 
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-\v 9 Those leaders understood that God had kindly given to me this special mission. So James, Peter, and John, the leaders of the believers in Christ—the same leaders that many people knew and honored—they were the ones who shook hands with us because we were fellow workers with them. We agreed that God had sent us to the Gentiles, that is, to those who were not circumcised, and that God had sent them to the Jews, that is, to those who were circumcised.
+\v 9 Those leaders understood that God had kindly given to me this special mission. So James, Peter, and John, the leaders of the believers in Christ—the same leaders that many people knew and honored—they were the ones who shook hands with us because we were fellow workers with them. We agreed that God had sent us to the Gentiles—that is, to those who were not circumcised, and that God had sent them to the Jews—that is, to those who were circumcised.
 \v 10 They only urged us to still remember to help the poor among the fellow believers who live in Jerusalem. That is exactly what I have been eager to do.
 
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 \v 6 What you have experienced is just as Moses had written in the scriptures about Abraham. He wrote that Abraham trusted God, and as a result God declared Abraham good in his sight.
 \v 7 You should realize, therefore, that it is those who trust in Christ to save them whom God has made into descendants of Abraham.
-\v 8 Even before God began to make Gentiles good in his sight when they trusted in him, men wrote in the scriptures that he would do this. God announced this good news to Abraham, as we read in the scriptures, "Because of what you have done, I will bless all the peoples in the world."
+\v 8 Even before God began to make Gentiles good in his sight when they trusted in him, men wrote in the scriptures that he would do this. God announced this good news to Abraham, as we read in the scriptures: "Because of what you have done, I will bless all the peoples in the world."
 \v 9 So, we know by this that it is all those who trust in Christ whom God blesses along with Abraham, who also trusted in God.
 
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-\v 10 God curses all those who think they can please God by obeying his law. It is just as you can read in the scriptures, "God will eternally punish everyone who does not continuously and completely obey all the laws that Moses wrote in the book of the law."
+\v 10 God curses all those who think they can please God by obeying his law. It is just as you can read in the scriptures: "God will eternally punish everyone who does not continuously and completely obey all the laws that Moses wrote in the book of the law."
 \v 11 But God has said that if he declares any people good in his sight, it will not be because they obeyed his law. You can read in the scriptures, "Every person whom God declares to be good will live because he trusts God."
-\v 12 Whoever tries to obey the law is not trusting in Christ, "Whoever starts to do the things in the law must obey them all."
+\v 12 Whoever tries to obey the law is not trusting in Christ; "Whoever starts to do the things in the law must obey them all."
 
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-\v 13 Christ rescued us from the curse that was upon us all. That curse came because there is not one who is able to obey all the requirements of the law. No one but Christ; and he was the one who rescued us from the penalty of our sins because he took away our sins and he died for our sins. He was punished on the cross for the sins we committed. The Scripture says, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." Christ became a curse for us, so he could rescue us.
+\v 13 Christ rescued us from the curse that was upon us all. That curse came because there is not one person who is able to obey all the requirements of the law—no one but Christ, and he was the one who rescued us from the penalty of our sins, because he took away our sins and he died for our sins. He was punished on the cross for the sins we committed. The Scripture says, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." Christ became a curse for us, so he could rescue us.
 \v 14 God cursed Christ in order to bless the Gentiles who believe in Christ just as he blessed Abraham. And he blessed the Gentiles so that we might receive the Spirit, whom he promised to all who trust in Christ.
 
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 \v 15 My fellow believers, God's promise is like a contract between two people. After they sign it, no one can cancel it, nor can they add anything to it.
-\v 16 God promised to bless Abraham and his special descendant. The scriptures do not say, "your descendants," that is, many people, but instead "your descendant," meaning just one person, Christ.
+\v 16 God promised to bless Abraham and his special descendant. The scriptures do not say, "your descendants"; that is, many people; but instead, "your descendant," meaning just one person, Christ.
 
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-\v 17 This is what I am saying. God established an agreement with Abraham that the law which he gave to Moses 430 years later could not cancel.
+\v 17 This is what I am saying. God established an agreement with Abraham that the law he gave to Moses 430 years later could not cancel.
 \v 18 This is because if what God is giving to us forever comes because we keep his law, then he would not be giving it because he had promised to do so. In reality, however, God gave Abraham this gift because he had freely promised to give it.
 
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-\v 21 So do the words of the law speak against what God promises? Certainly not. If we could obey the law and then live forever with God, then he certainly would have regarded us as good in his sight.
+\v 21 So the words of the law certainly do not speak against what God promises. If we could obey the law and then live forever with God, then he certainly would have regarded us as good in his sight.
 \v 22 But that was impossible. Instead, because we sin, the law in the scriptures controls us—and all things—just as if we were in prison. So when God promised to free us from that prison, he was speaking about everyone who believes in Jesus Christ.
 
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