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Galatians 5

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1Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. ✦ 2Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. ✦ 3And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. ✦ 4You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. ✦ 5For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. ✦ 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. ✦ 7You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? ✦ 8This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. ✦ 9A little leaven leavens the whole lump. ✦ 10I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is. ✦ 11And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased. ✦ 12I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off! ✦ 13For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. ✦ 14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ✦ 15But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! ✦ 16I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ✦ 17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. ✦ 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. ✦ 19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, ✦ 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, ✦ 21envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ✦ 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ✦ 23gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. ✦ 24And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ✦ 25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ✦ 26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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