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| 5:1 |
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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| 5:2 |
Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
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| 5:3 |
Once again I testify to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the entire law.
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| 5:4 |
You who want to be justified by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
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| 5:5 |
For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
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| 5:6 |
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.
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| 5:7 |
You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?
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| 5:8 |
Such persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.
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| 5:9 |
A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.
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| 5:10 |
I am confident about you in the Lord that you will not think otherwise. But whoever it is that is confusing you will pay the penalty.
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| 5:11 |
But my friends, why am I still being persecuted if I am still preaching circumcision? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
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| 5:12 |
I wish those who unsettle you would castrate themselves!
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| 5:13 |
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.
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| 5:14 |
For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
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| 5:15 |
If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
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| 5:16 |
Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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| 5:17 |
For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.
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| 5:18 |
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law.
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| 5:19 |
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,
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| 5:20 |
idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions,
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| 5:21 |
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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| 5:22 |
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
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| 5:23 |
gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
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| 5:24 |
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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| 5:25 |
If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.
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| 5:26 |
Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.
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