Galatians 5
¹ With freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
² Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
³ Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
⁴ Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.
⁵ For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
⁷ Ye were running well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
⁸ This persuasion came not of him that calleth you.
⁹ A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
¹⁰ I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
¹¹ But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumblingblock of the cross been done away.
¹² I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off.
¹³ For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
¹⁵ But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
¹⁶ But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
¹⁷ For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.
¹⁸ But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, heresies,
²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they which practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
²³ meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
²⁴ And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
²⁶ Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.