Galatians 5

¹ For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

² Now I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

³ I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is bound to keep the whole law.

⁴ You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

⁵ For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love.

⁷ You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

⁸ This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

⁹ A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

¹⁰ I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine; and he who is troubling you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

¹¹ But if I, brethren, still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

¹² I wish those who unsettle you would mutilate themselves!

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.

¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

¹⁵ But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

¹⁶ But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.

¹⁷ For the 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, to prevent you from doing what you would.

¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit,

²¹ envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

²³ gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

²⁴ And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

²⁶ Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another.