5:1 For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.
5:2 Take note! I, Paul, am telling you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all.
5:3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to do the entire law.
5:4 You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.
5:5 For we eagerly await through the Spirit, by faith, the hope of righteousness.
5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
5:7 You were running well. Who prevented you from being persuaded regarding the truth?
5:8 This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.
5:9 A little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough.
5:10 I myself am persuaded in the Lord you will not accept any other view. But whoever it is that is confusing you will pay the penalty.
5:11 Now brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
5:12 I wish those who are disturbing you might also let themselves be mutilated!
5:13 For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.
5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
5:16 I say, then, walk by the Spirit and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh.
5:17 For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.
5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,
5:21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I am warning you about these things—as I warned you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
5:23 gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things.
5:24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
5:26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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