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Thus, for Paul, faith is faith only as it is enacted in love, which is the power of the new age present and active already in the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is by the enlivening power of the Spirit that the believer is sustained and guided in her or his new life. "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit" (Gal 5:25) -- the principal and inclusive fruit of the Spirit being love (5:22). If love never ends (1 Cor 13:8), this is because it is God's own power, the power of the new age, reaching back into our present, claiming us for God and endowing our existence with meaning and direction.

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