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¹ Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.² Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.³ And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a debtor to do the whole law.⁴ You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace.⁵ For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice.⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.⁷ You did run well. What hath hindered you, that you should not obey the truth?⁸ This persuasion is not from him that calleth you.⁹ A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.¹⁰ I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be.¹¹ And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void.¹² I would they were even cut off, who trouble you.

¹³ For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.¹⁴ For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.¹⁵ But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not consumed one of another.¹⁶ I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.¹⁷ For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that 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 manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,²⁰ Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,²¹ Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.²² But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,²³ Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.²⁴ And they that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.²⁶ Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.