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title: Galatians 5
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createdAt: 2024-09-15T01:48:17.508Z
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**1 **Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

**2 **Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. **3 **For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. **4 **Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. **5 **For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. **6 **For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

**7 **Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? **8 **This persuasion *cometh* not of him that calleth you. **9 **A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. **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. **11 **And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. **12 **I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

**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. **14 **For all the law is fulfilled in one word, *even* in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. **15 **But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

**16 ***This* I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. **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. **18 **But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. **19 **Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are *these*; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, **20 **Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, **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. **22 **But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, **23 **Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. **24 **And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

**25 **If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. **26 **Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.