| 1 | For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. |
| 2 | Now I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. |
| 3 | I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is bound to keep the whole law. |
| 4 | You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. |
| 5 | For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness. |
| 6 | For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love. |
| 7 | You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? |
| 8 | This persuasion is not from him who calls you. |
| 9 | A little leaven leavens the whole lump. |
| 10 | I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine; and he who is troubling you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. |
| 11 | But if I, brethren, still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been removed. |
| 12 | I wish those who unsettle you would mutilate themselves! |
| 13 | For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. |
| 14 | For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." |
| 15 | But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another. |
| 16 | But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. |
| 17 | For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would. |
| 18 | But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law. |
| 19 | Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, |
| 20 | idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, |
| 21 | envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. |
| 22 | But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, |
| 23 | gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. |
| 24 | And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. |
| 25 | If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. |
| 26 | Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another. |
| 1 | Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted. |
| 2 | Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. |
| 3 | For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. |
| 4 | But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. |
| 5 | For each man will have to bear his own load. |
| 6 | Let him who is taught the word share all good things with him who teaches. |
| 7 | Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. |
| 8 | For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. |
| 9 | And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart. |
| 10 | So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. |
| 11 | See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. |
| 12 | It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh that would compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. |
| 13 | For even those who receive circumcision do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh. |
| 14 | But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. |
| 15 | For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. |
| 16 | Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule, upon the Israel of God. |
| 17 | Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. |
| 18 | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen. |
