EMTV - Galatians - 5

5:1  Stand fast therefore in the freedom in which Christ has made us free, and do not be loaded down again with a yoke of bondage.

5:2  Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

5:3  And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

5:4  You have become severed from Christ, you who are justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

5:5  For we by the Spirit eagerly await for the hope of righteousness by faith.

5:6  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

5:7  You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

5:8  This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

5:9  A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

5:10  I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will be intent on nothing else; but he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he may be.

5:11  And I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been done away with.

5:12  Oh that those who disturb you would even castrate themselves!

5:13  For you, brothers were called to freedom; only do not use freedom for an opportunity for the flesh, but rather through love serve one another.

5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

5:15  But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another!

5:16  I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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

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

5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lewdness,

5:20  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

5:21  envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

5:23  gentleness, self-control—against such things there is no law.

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

5:25  If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

5:26  Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.