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[1]Stand therefore in that liberty with which the Meshiha hath freed you, and be not enthralled with the yoke of bondage.
[2]Behold, I, Paulos, tell you, that if you be circumcised, the Meshiha profiteth you nothing.
[3]But I attest again to every man who is circumcised, that he is obligated to fulfil the whole law.
[4]You have ceased from the Meshiha who are justified by the law, and from grace you have fallen.
[5]But we through the Spirit, who is from faith, expect the hope of righteousness.
[6]For, in the Meshiha Jeshu, circumcision is not any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which is made perfect by love.
[7]Well did you run; who hath impeded you, that to the truth you should not be in obedience?
[8]Your persuasion is not from him who called you.
[9]A little leaven the whole mass leaveneth.
[10]I am confident of you in our Lord, that no other thing you will think; and he who disturbeth you shall bear judgment, whoever he is.
[11]But I, my brethren, if yet I have preached for circumcision,ⓘ why have I been persecuted? Hath the scandal of the cross ceased?
[12]But I would that they who disturb you were even cut off.
[13]BUT you have been called unto liberty, my brethren: only let not your liberty be for an occasion of the flesh; but in love be subjected one to another.
[14]For all the law in one word is fulfilled, in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
[15]But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest one by another you be consumed.
[16]But I say to you, Walk in the Spirit, and the desires of the flesh you will not work.
[17]For the flesh desireth that which is repugnant to the Spirit, and the Spirit desireth that which is repugnant to the flesh; and the two are adverse one to the other, that not any thing that you will you may do.
[18]But if by the Spirit you are led, you are not under the law.
[19]For the works of the flesh are known, which are [these], fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
[20]The worship of idols, sorcery, enmity, contention, ambition, wrath, calumny, divisions, rendings,
[21]Envy, murder, drunkenness, revelling, and all that are like these; and they who do them, as I told you before, so now I tell you, the kingdom of Aloha do not inherit.
[22]But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, prolonging of the spirit, benignity, goodness, fidelity, meekness, patience;
[23]Against these the law is not set.
[24]But they who are of the Meshiha have crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its lusts:
[25]Live we therefore in the Spirit,
[26]And let us not be vain-glorious, contemning one another, envying one another.
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