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¹ Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.

² Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

³ And I witness again to every man [who is] circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.

⁴ Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.

⁵ For we, by [the] Spirit, on the principle of faith, await the hope of righteousness.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

⁷ Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

⁸ The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.

⁹ A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

¹⁰ *I* have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.

¹¹ But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

¹² I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw you into confusion.

¹³ For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only [do] not [turn] liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

¹⁵ but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

¹⁶ But I say, Walk in [the] Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil flesh's lust.

¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

¹⁸ but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

²³ meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

²⁴ But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.

²⁶ Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.