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[1]Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
[2]Behold, I Paul say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
[3]And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole Law.
[4]You have become cut off from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by Law; you have fallen from grace.
[5]For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness out of faith.
[6]For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
[7]You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
[8]This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.
[9]A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
[10]I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he may be.
[11]And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.
[12]I could wish that those who unsettle your minds would even cut themselves off.
[13]For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
[14]For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
[15]But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.
[16]I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
[17]For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
[18]But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
[19]Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, sexual perversion, uncleanness, licentiousness,
[20]idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
[21]envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
[22]But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
[23]meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
[24]And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
[25]If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
[26]Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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