OrthJBC - Galatians - 5

5:1  For this deror (freedom), Moshiach freed us; stand fast, therefore, and be not again bound by an ol (yoke) of avdut (slavery).

5:2  Hinei! I, Sha'ul, say to you, that if you Goyim undergo the bris milah, Moshiach will profit you nothing [3:12-14].

5:3  And I testify again to every one of you undergoing bris milah that such is chal (placed under obligation) to do the whole Torah.

5:4  You who want to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM ("justified with G-d") by chumra (legalism), by chukim of the Torah are estranged from Moshiach, you fell from the Chen v'Chesed Hashem.

5:5  For we by the Ruach Hakodesh eagerly await by emunah the tikvah haTzedek (BERESHIS 15:6).

5:6  For in Moshiach Yehoshua neither bris milah is of any force nor the lack of it, but emunah working through ahavah (agape).

5:7  You were running well: who hindered you from being persuaded by haEmes?

5:8  This persuasion is not of the One calling you.

5:9  A little chametz leavens all the dough.

5:10  I have bittachon in you in Adoneinu that nothing other you will think, but the one troubling you will bear the judgement, whoever he may be.

5:11  But if I preach [to Goyim] the bris milah, Achim B'Moshiach, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the michshol (stumbling block) of [Moshiach's] Aitz (3:12-14; DEVARIM 21:23) has been abolished.

5:12  O if the ones (the mohalim of Goyim) troubling you would castrate themselves!

5:13  For, Achim B'Moshiach, you were called for Cherut (Freedom); only use not the Cherut for a pretext for the basar, but, through ahavah (agape), minister to one another as avadim (servants).

5:14  For the entire Torah has been summed up in one word: V'AHAVTA L'RE'ACHA KAMOCHA ("Love your neighbor as yourself" VAYIKRA 19:18).

5:15  But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another. A FINAL WORD TO THE TRUE BA'AL TESHUVA IN MOSHIACH: MUSSAR (ETHICAL CONDUCT) IS LEARNED BY WALKING IN THE RUACH HAKODESH AND NOT THE BASAR (THE OLD NATURE OF FALLEN HUMANITY), SINCE THE MOSHIACH HAS COME AND THE RUACH HAKODESH HAS COME, THE TURNING OF THE AGES IS HERE, AND THE GOYIM SHOULD REALIZE THAT THEY ARE NOT NOW UNDER THE AGE OF THE TORAH; THE BRIT CHADASHA MAKES POSSIBLE A NEW SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF TORAH OBEDIENCE IN MOSHIACH AND IN THE RUACH HAKODESH (YIRMEYAH 31:33)--BUT DO YOU GOYIM UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE P'RI OF THE RUACH HAKODESH AND THE MA'ASEI HABASAR?

5:16  But I say, walk by the Ruach haKodesh, and by no means will you carry out the ta'avot of the basar.

5:17  For the basar desires against the Ruach haKodesh, and the Ruach haKodesh desires against the basar (for these oppose each other) with the result that the things you wish you cannot do (Rom.7:7-25).

5:18  But if by the Ruach haKodesh you are led, you are not under the Torah.

5:19  Now the ma'asei habasar are manifest, dehainu (being:) zenut (fornication), tum'ah (impurity), zimmah (licentiousness),

5:20  avodah zarah (idolatry), kashefanut (sorcery, witchcraft), eivot (enmities), merivah (strife), kinah (jealousy), rogez (anger), anochiyut (selfishness), machalokot (dissensions), kitot (sects),

5:21  tzarut ayin (envyings), shichrut (drunkenness), holelut (carousing) and things like these, of which I tell you beforehand, as I said previously, that the ones practicing such things will not receive the nachalah (inheritance) of the Malchut Hashem.

5:22  But the p'ri of the Ruach haKodesh is ahavah (agape), simcha, shalom, zitzfleisch, nedivut, chesed, ne'emanut,

5:23  anavah, shlitah atzmi...(would you not agree?) against these things there is no isser (proscription in the Torah).

5:24  But the ones of Moshiach Yehoshua have pierced and put to death on the Aitz (DEVARIM 21:23) the basar with its teshukot and its ta'avot.

5:25  If we live by the Ruach haKodesh, we should stay in line with the Derech haYashar (Straight Way) of the Ruach haKodesh.

5:26  Let us not become ba'alei ga'avah (conceited, haughty persons), provoking one another, envying one another.