{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/galatians/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T08:40:48.777Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Galatians","bookSlug":"galatians","chapter":5,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":6,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"This persuasion comes not of him that calls you."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"A little leaven leavens the whole lump."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he be."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And I, brothers, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offense of the cross ceased."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I would they were even cut off which trouble you."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, jealousies, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, 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."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another."}],"citation":{"inline":"Galatians 5 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Galatians 5](https://primebible.com/akjv/galatians/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/galatians/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}