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[1]In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
[2]lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;
[3]and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;
[4]ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;
[5]for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,
[6]for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
[7]Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?
[8]the obedience [is] not of him who is calling you!
[9]a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;
[10]I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
[11]And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;
[12]O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!
[13]For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
[14]for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'
[15]and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.
[16]And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;
[17]for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;
[18]and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.
[19]And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
[20]idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,
[21]envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
[22]And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
[23]meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
[24]and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
[25]if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;
[26]let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!
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