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." 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 other, 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, 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.
