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With freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

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Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

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Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

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Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

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For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

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Ye were running well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

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This persuasion came not of him that calleth you.

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A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

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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.

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But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumblingblock of the cross been done away.

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I would that they which unsettle you would even cut themselves off.

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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.

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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

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But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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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.

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But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, heresies,

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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.

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

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meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

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And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

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

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Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

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About Galatians 5

Christ set believers free—stand firm and do not submit to circumcision; faith working through love counts, not law-keeping; live by the Spirit, producing love, joy, peace, and crucifying fleshly works.

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Author
Paul
Written
AD 48–49
Location
Ancient Galatia (modern Turkey)
Setting
Early Christian communities in Asia Minor

Emphasis on faith over the law.

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