{"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/erv/galatians/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:28:10.388Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Galatians","bookSlug":"galatians","chapter":5,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":6,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"With freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Ye were running well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"This persuasion came not of him that calleth you."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumblingblock of the cross been done away."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, heresies,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they which practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another."}],"citation":{"inline":"Galatians 5 (ERV)","markdown":"[Galatians 5](https://primebible.com/erv/galatians/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/galatians/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}