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Galatians 5 (AMP)

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¹ IN freedom Christ has made us free ; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery . ² Notice, it is I, Paul, who tells you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no profit (advantage, avail) to you . ³ I once more protest and testify to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation and bound to practice the whole of the Law and its ordinances. ⁴ If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ. You have fallen away from grace (from God's gracious favor and unmerited blessing). ⁵ For we, through the Spirit's , by faith anticipate and wait for the blessing and good for which our righteousness and right standing with God to hope. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love. ⁷ You were running the race nobly. Who has interfered in (hindered and stopped you from) your heeding and following the Truth? ⁸ This persuasion is not from Him Who called you . ⁹ A little leaven (a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers) leavens the whole lump . ¹⁰ I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no contrary view of the matter but will come to think with me. But he who is unsettling you, whoever he is, will have to bear the penalty. ¹¹ But, brethren, if I still preach circumcision , why am I still suffering persecution? In that case the cross has ceased to be a stumbling block and is made meaningless (done away). ¹² I wish those who unsettle and confuse you would cut themselves off! ¹³ For you, brethren, were called to freedom; only freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse , but through love you should serve one another. ¹⁴ For the whole Law is complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁵ But if you bite and devour one another , be careful that you are not consumed by one another. ¹⁶ But I say, walk and live in the Spirit ; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God). ¹⁷ For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to each other , so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do. ¹⁸ But if you are guided (led) by the Spirit, you are not subject to the Law. ¹⁹ Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), ²¹ Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, ²³ Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law . ²⁴ And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires. ²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become vainglorious and self-conceited, competitive and challenging and provoking and irritating to one another, envying and being jealous of one another.