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[1] Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
[2] Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
[3] For I testify again to every man, which is circumcised, that he is bound to keep the whole Law.
[4] Ye are abolished from Christ: whosoever are justified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.
[5] For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness through faith.
[6] For in Jesus Christ neither Circumcision availeth anything, neither uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.
[7] Ye did run well: who did let you, that ye did not obey the truth?
[8] It is not the persuasion of him that calleth you.
[9] A little leaven doth leaven the whole lump.
[10] I have trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you, shall bear his condemnation, whosoever he be.
[11] And brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the slander of the cross abolished.
[12] Would to God they were even cut off, which do disquiet you.
[13] For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty: only use not your liberty as an occasion unto the flesh, but by love serve one another.
[14] For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, which is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
[15] If ye bite and devour one another, take heed lest ye be consumed one of another.
[16] Then I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
[17] For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye cannot do the same things that ye would.
[18] And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
[19] Moreover the works of the flesh are manifest, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,
[20] Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies,
[21] Envy, murders, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also have told you before, that they which do such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
[22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
[23] Meekness, temperancy: against such there is no law.
[24] For they that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with the affections and the lusts.
[25] If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
[26] Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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