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# Galatians 5

[1](#verse-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](#verse-2) Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

[3](#verse-3) Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

[4](#verse-4) You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

[5](#verse-5) For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

[6](#verse-6) For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.

[7](#verse-7) You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

[8](#verse-8) This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

[9](#verse-9) A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

[10](#verse-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](#verse-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](#verse-12) I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

[13](#verse-13) For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

[14](#verse-14) For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

[15](#verse-15) But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

[16](#verse-16) But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

[17](#verse-17) For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

[18](#verse-18) But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

[19](#verse-19) Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

[20](#verse-20) idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

[21](#verse-21) envy, 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 God’s Kingdom.

[22](#verse-22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

[23](#verse-23) gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

[24](#verse-24) Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

[25](#verse-25) If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

[26](#verse-26) Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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