{"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/wnt/galatians/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:32:27.465Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WNT","book":"Galatians","bookSlug":"galatians","chapter":5,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":6,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Christ having made us gloriously free--stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Remember that it is I Paul who tell you that if you receive circumcision Christ will avail you nothing."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I once more protest to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law of Moses."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"*We* have not, for through the Spirit we wait with longing hope for an  acceptance with God which is to come through faith."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working through love."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"You were running the race nobly! Who has interfered and caused you to swerve from the truth?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"No such teaching ever proceeded from Him who is calling you."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"A little  yeast  corrupts the whole of the dough."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For my part I have  strong confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt my view of the matter. But the man--be he who he may--who is troubling you, will have to bear the full weight of the judgement to be pronounced on him."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"As for me, brethren, if I am still a preacher of circumcision, how is it that I am still suffering persecution? In that case the Cross has ceased to be a stumbling-block!"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Would to God that those who are unsettling your faith would even  mutilate themselves."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"You  however, brethren, were called to  freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures; but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept the single precept, which says, |You are to love your  fellow man equally with yourself.|"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not  indulge the cravings of  your lower natures."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"But if  the Spirit is leading you, you are not subject to Law."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, intrigues, dissensions, factions,  envyings;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"good faith, meekness, self-restraint."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Let us not become vain-glorious, challenging one another, envying one another."}],"citation":{"inline":"Galatians 5 (WNT)","markdown":"[Galatians 5](https://primebible.com/wnt/galatians/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WNT. https://primebible.com/wnt/galatians/5 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}