| Chapter 5 |
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Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage. |
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Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. |
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And I witness again to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law. |
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Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated from him, as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace. |
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For we, by the Spirit, on the principle of faith, await the hope of righteousness. |
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. |
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Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth? |
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The persuasibleness is not of him that calls you. |
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A little leaven leavens the whole lump. |
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*I* have confidence as to you in the Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt of it, whosoever he may be. |
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But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away. |
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I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw you into confusion. |
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For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another. |
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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; |
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but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another. |
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But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil flesh`s lust. |
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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire; |
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but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law. |
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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, |
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idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion, |
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envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God`s kingdom. |
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, |
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meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law. |
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But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts. |
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If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit. |
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Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another. |