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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight--the only thing that matters is faith working through love. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You were running well; who prevented you from obeying 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 yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I am confident in the Lord that you will accept no other view. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he may be. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching 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 those agitators would go so far as to castrate themselves! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot 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, impurity, depravity, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: 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. Against such things there is no law. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Now those who belong to Christ 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 behave in accordance with the Spirit. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another. |
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