| Chapter 5 |
1 | Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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2 | Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
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3 | For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
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4 | Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
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5 | For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
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6 | For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
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7 | Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
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8 | This persuasion [cometh] not of him that calleth you.
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9 | A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
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10 | I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
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11 | And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
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12 | I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
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13 | For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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14 | For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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15 | But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
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16 | [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
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17 | For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
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18 | But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
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19 | Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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20 | Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
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21 | Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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22 | But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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23 | Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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24 | And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
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25 | If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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26 | Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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