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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm then and don't submit again to a yoke of slavery. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Take note! I, Paul, am telling you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to do the entire law. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For we eagerly await through the Spirit, by faith, the hope of righteousness. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You were running well. Who prevented you from being persuaded regarding the truth? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9A little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I myself am persuaded in the Lord you will not accept any other view. But whoever it is that is confusing you will pay the penalty. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I wish those who are disturbing you might also let themselves be mutilated! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don't use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don't do what you want. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I am warning you about these things--as I warned you before--that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. |
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