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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The Messiah has set us free so that we may enjoy the benefits of freedom. So keep on standing firm in it, and stop putting yourselves under the yoke of slavery again. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, the Messiah will be of no benefit to you. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised is obligated to obey the entire Law. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Those of you who are trying to be justified by the Law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Through the Spirit by faith we confidently await the fulfillment of our righteous hope, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You were running the race beautifully. Who cut in on you and stopped you from obeying the truth? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Such influence does not come from the one who calls you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view of this. However, the one who is troubling you will suffer God's judgment, whoever he is. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching the necessity of circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I wish that those who are upsetting you would castrate themselves! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For the whole Law is summarized in a single statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But if you are being led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, rivalry, jealously, outbursts of anger, quarrels, conflicts, factions, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people 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. There is no law against such things. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Now those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Since we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also be guided. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Let's stop being arrogant, provoking one another and envying one another. |
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