AFV2020 - Galatians - 5

5:1  Therefore, stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and do not be held again in a yoke of bondage.

5:2  Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you become circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing!

5:3  Again, I am personally testifying to every man who is being circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

5:4  You who are attempting to be justified by works of law, you are being deprived of any spiritual effect from Christ. You have fallen from grace!

5:5  For we through the Spirit are waiting for the hope of righteousness by faith;

5:6  Because in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision of any force, nor uncircumcision; rather, it is the inner working of faith through love.

5:7  You were running well. Who hindered you, persuading you not to obey the truth?

5:8  This persuasion is not coming from Him who calls you.

5:9  A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

5:10  I am persuaded concerning you in the Lord that you will be otherwise minded; and he who troubles you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

5:11  But I, brethren, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I yet being persecuted? Then the offense of the cross has been taken away.

5:12  I would that they would even make themselves eunuchs—those who are throwing you into confusion.

5:13  For you have been called unto freedom, brethren; only do not use this freedom for an occasion to the flesh; rather, serve one another with love.

5:14  For the whole law is fulfilled in this commandment: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

5:15  But if you bite and devour one another, watch out lest you be consumed by one another.

5:16  Now this I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

5:17  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do those things you wish to do.

5:18  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under works of law.

5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, jealousies, indignations, contentions, divisions, sects,

5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such things as these; concerning which I am telling you beforehand, even as I have also said in the past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

5:23  Meekness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

5:24  But those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

5:25  If we live by the Spirit, we should also be walking by the Spirit.

5:26  We should not become vain-glorious, provoking one another and envying one another.