1. Epictetus, Discourses, 1.2.14, 1.9.1, 1.9.11, 1.9.15, 1.29.3, 2.11.20, 2.23.30-2.23.35, 3.3.14-3.3.16, 3.22.1-3.22.2, 3.24.60, 3.24.64-3.24.65, 3.24.85, 4.1.87-4.1.88, 4.1.111-4.1.112, 4.1.151-4.1.152, 4.1.154, 4.4.33, 4.5.28, 4.7.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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2. Epictetus, Fragments, 4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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3. New Testament, 1 Peter, 2.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 2.16. as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. |
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4. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 7.19 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 7.19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision isnothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. |
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5. New Testament, Galatians, 3.28, 5.6, 6.15 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 3.28. There is neither Jewnor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither malenor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 5.6. For in Christ Jesusneither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faithworking through love. 6.15. For in Christ Jesus neitheris circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. |
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6. New Testament, Philippians, 3.13 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 3.13. Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before |
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7. New Testament, Romans, 8.18, 8.27-8.31, 8.35-8.39 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 8.18. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. 8.27. He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. 8.28. We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. 8.29. For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 8.30. Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified. 8.31. What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 8.35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 8.36. Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 8.37. No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 8.38. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers 8.39. nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
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8. Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome, Meditations, 3.11.2, 4.4.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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