1 | For 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 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 hindered 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 stumbling-block of the cross been done away. |
12 | I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision. |
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 neighbor 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 fulfil 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, parties, |
21 | envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who 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, self-control; 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 become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another. |