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5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free;stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. 5:2 Now I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 5:3 I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is bound to keep the whole law. 5:4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law;you have fallen away from grace. 5:5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait for the hope of righteousness. 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love. 5:7 You were running well;who hindered you from obeying the truth? 5:8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 5:9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 5:10 I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine;and he who is troubling you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. 5:11 But if I, brethren, still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the crosshas been removed. 5:12 I wish those who unsettle you would mutilate themselves! 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brethren;only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another. 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. 5:17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh;for these areopposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would. 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law. 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, 5:21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 5:23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. 5:26 Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another.