Galatians 5
1 Christ set us free for freedom. So stand firm, and do not let yourselves be bound again by a yoke of slavery.
2 I, Paul, tell you: if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
3 And I again declare to everyone who is circumcised that he is obligated to keep the whole Law.
4 You have been cut off from Christ, you who want to be declared righteous by the Law; you have fallen away from grace.
5 For through the Spirit, on the basis of faith, we eagerly await the hope of righteousness.
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but faith working through love.
7 You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
8 This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.
9 A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.
10 I trust in you in the Lord, that you will think otherwise about nothing; but whoever is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
11 As for me, brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? Then the offense of the cross has been done away with.
12 I wish those who are troubling you would go all the way and castrate themselves!
13 For you, brothers and sisters, were called to freedom; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for human impulses, but serve one another through love.
14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in a single word: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
16 But I say: walk by the Spirit, and you will certainly not fulfill the desire of human impulses.
17 For human impulses desire what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against human impulses; they oppose each other, so that you do not do what you want.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
19 Now the works of human impulses are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions,
21 envy, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like these. I warn you about them, as I warned you before: 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, self-control; there is no law against such things.
24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified human impulses, along with the passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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