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[1]Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
[2]Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
[3]For I testify again to every man, which is circumcised, that he is bound to keep the whole Law.
[4]Ye are abolished from Christ: whosoever are justified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.
[5]For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness through faith.
[6]For in Jesus Christ neither Circumcision availeth anything, neither uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.
[7]Ye did run well: who did let you, that ye did not obey the truth?
[8]It is not the persuasion of him that calleth you.
[9]A little leaven doth leaven the whole lump.
[10]I have trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you, shall bear his condemnation, whosoever he be.
[11]And brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the slander of the cross abolished.
[12]Would to God they were even cut off, which do disquiet you.
[13]For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty: only use not your liberty as an occasion unto the flesh, but by love serve one another.
[14]For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, which is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
[15]If ye bite and devour one another, take heed lest ye be consumed one of another.
[16]Then I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
[17]For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye cannot do the same things that ye would.
[18]And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
[19]Moreover the works of the flesh are manifest, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,
[20]Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies,
[21]Envy, murders, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also have told you before, that they which do such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
[22]But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
[23]Meekness, temperancy: against such there is no law.
[24]For they that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with the affections and the lusts.
[25]If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
[26]Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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