Chapter 5

  In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;  

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  lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;  

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  and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;  

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  ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;  

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  for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,  

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

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  Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?  

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  the obedience [is] not of him who is calling you!  

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  a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;  

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  I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.  

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  And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;  

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  O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!  

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  For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,  

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  for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;'  

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  and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.  

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  And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;  

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  for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;  

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

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  And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,  

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  idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,  

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  envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.  

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  And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,  

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  meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;  

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  and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;  

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  if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;  

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  let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!  

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