Galatians 5
Christ Has Set Us Free
For afreedom Christ has bset us free; cstand firm therefore, and do not submit again to da yoke of eslavery.
2 Look: I, Paul, say to you that aif you accept circumcision, bChrist will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that ahe is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are asevered from Christ, byou who would be justified by the law; cyou have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly await for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus aneither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but bonly faith working through love.
7 aYou were running well. Who hindered you from obeying bthe truth? 8 This persuasion is not from ahim who calls you. 9 aA little leaven leavens the whole lump. 10 aI have confidence in the Lord that you will btake no other view, and cthe one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. 11 But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, awhy am I still being persecuted? In that case bthe offense of the cross has been removed. 12 I wish athose who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. aOnly do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love bserve one another. 14 For athe whole law is fulfilled in one word: b“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you abite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Keep in Step with the Spirit
16 But I say, awalk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify bthe desires of the flesh. 17 For athe desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, bto keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are aled by the Spirit, byou are not under the law. 19 Now athe works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, adivisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that athose who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But athe fruit of the Spirit is blove, joy, peace, patience, ckindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 agentleness, bself-control; cagainst such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus ahave crucified the flesh with its bpassions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, alet us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 aLet us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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