Galatians:5

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* Christ having made us gloriously free –stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery . * Remember that it is I Paul who tell you that if you receive circumcision Christ will avail you nothing . * I once more protest to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law of Moses . * Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law : you have fallen away from grace . * have not , for through the Spirit we wait with longing hope for an acceptance with God which is to come through faith . * For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance ; but only faith working through love . * You were running the race nobly ! Who has interfered and caused you to swerve from the truth ? * No such teaching ever proceeded from Him who is calling you . * A little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough . * 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 . * 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 ! * Would to God that those who are unsettling your faith would even mutilate themselves . * 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 . * For the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept the single precept , which says , * But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another , beware lest you are destroyed by one another . * 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 . * 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 . * But if the Spirit is leading you , you are not subject to Law . * Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures . Fornication , impurity , indecency , idol-worship , sorcery ; * enmity , strife , jealousy , outbursts of passion , intrigues , dissensions , factions , envyings ; * 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 . * The Spirit , on the other hand , brings a harvest of love , joy , peace ; patience towards others , kindness , benevolence ; * good faith , meekness , self-restraint . * 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 . * If we are living by the Spirit 's power , let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit 's power . * Let us not become vain-glorious , challenging one another , envying one another .

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