• 1. Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  • 2. Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
  • 3. Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
  • 4. You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have 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 amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • 7. You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
  • 8. This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
  • 9. A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
  • 10. I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
  • 11. But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
  • 12. I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
  • 13. For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
  • 14. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18}
  • 15. But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.
  • 16. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
  • 17. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
  • 18. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
  • 19. Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
  • 20. idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
  • 21. envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
  • 22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,{or, faithfulness}
  • 23. gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
  • 24. Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
  • 25. If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
  • 26. Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.