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[1] For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
[2] Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. [3] Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. [4] Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. [5] For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. [6] For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. [7] Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth? [8] This persuasion came not of him that calleth you. [9] A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. [10] I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. [11] But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away. [12] I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.
[13] For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. [14] For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [15] But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
[16] But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. [17] For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would. [18] But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. [19] Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, [20] idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, [21] envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. [22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [23] meekness, self-control; against such there is no law. [24] And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
[25] If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. [26] Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
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