Galatians 5

Thomson^{(i) 1} therefore stand up for the liberty with which Christ hath made us free, and be not again entangled with a yoke of bondage. ² Behold I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will avail .you nothing. ³ And I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is under an obligation to perform the whole law. ⁴ You who are justified by law, have done with the Christ"you have fallen from that favour. ⁵ As for us then, we by the spirit entertain a hope of justification for faith. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth any thing, but a belief made operative by love. ⁷ You were running well. Who hath stopped you from obeying the truth? ⁸ This persuasion cometh not from him who called you. ⁹ A little leaven leaveneth the whole mass. ¹⁰ I have a confidence in the Lord with respect to you, that you will keep your minds bent on nothing else, and that he who troubleth you, whoever he may be, will bear the blame ¹¹ As for me, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offence of the cross is done away. ¹² I wish that they who are unsettling you would cut themselves off: ¹³ for you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only let not that liberty be an advantage to the flesh; but be servants to one another by offices of love. ¹⁴ For the whole law is summed up in this one precept, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ¹⁵ Now if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not destroyed by one another. ¹⁶ This then I say, walk by the spirit and by no means fulfil the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the inclinations of the flesh are contrary to the spirit; and the inclinations of the spirit are contrary to the flesh; they are opposed to one another; so that you do not, what you wish; ¹⁸ but if you are led by the spirit you are not under law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest"they are these"adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, fascinations, enmities, strifes, emulations, .animosities, contentions, factions, sects, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and the like, of which I forewarn you, as I have indeed before declared that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God: ²² But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Now they who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live by spirit let us walk by spirit. ²⁶ Let us not be vain glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.