1: Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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2: Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ
shall profit you nothing. |
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For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he
is a debtor to do the whole law. |
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4: Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are
justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. |
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5: For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness
by faith. |
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6: For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything,
nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. |
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7: Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey
the truth? |
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8: This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
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9: A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. |
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10: I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be
none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his
judgment, whosoever he be. |
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11: And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet
suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. |
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12: I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
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13: For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not
liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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14: For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. |
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15: But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be
not consumed one of another. |
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16: This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh. |
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17: For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit
against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that
ye cannot do the things that ye would. |
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18: But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
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19: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, |
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20: Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, |
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21: Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of
the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that
they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. |
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22: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, |
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23: Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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24: And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. |
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25: If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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26: Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,
envying one another. |