Galatians 5:1-26
5 For such freedom* Christ set us free.+ Therefore stand fast,+ and do not let yourselves be confined again in a yoke of slavery.+
2 See! I, Paul, am telling YOU that if YOU become circumcised,+ Christ will be of no benefit to YOU.
3 Moreover, I bear witness again to every man getting circumcised that he is under obligation to perform the whole Law.+
4 YOU are parted from Christ, whoever YOU are that try to be declared righteous by means of law;+ YOU have fallen away from his undeserved kindness.+
5 For our part we by spirit are eagerly waiting for the hoped-for righteousness* as a result of faith.+
6 For as regards Christ Jesus* neither circumcision is of any value nor is uncircumcision,+ but faith+ operating through love+ [is].
7 YOU were running well.+ Who hindered YOU from keeping on obeying the truth?+
8 This sort of persuasion is not from the One calling YOU.+
9 A little leaven ferments the whole lump.+
10 I am confident+ about YOU who are in union+ with [the] Lord* that YOU will not come to think otherwise; but the one who is causing YOU trouble+ will bear [his] judgment,+ no matter who he may be.
11 As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? Then, indeed, the stumbling block*+ of the torture stake*+ has been abolished.+
12 I wish the men who are trying to overturn YOU+ would even get themselves emasculated.*+
13 YOU were, of course, called for freedom,+ brothers; only do not use this freedom as an inducement for the flesh,+ but through love slave for one another.+
14 For the entire Law stands fulfilled+ in one saying, namely: “You must* love your neighbor as yourself.”+
15 If, though, YOU keep on biting and devouring one another,+ look out that YOU do not get annihilated by one another.+
16 But I say, Keep walking by spirit+ and YOU will carry out no fleshly desire at all.+
17 For the flesh is against the spirit+ in its desire, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that the very things that YOU would like to do YOU do not do.+
18 Furthermore, if YOU are being led by spirit,+ YOU are not under law.+
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest,+ and they are fornication,*+ uncleanness,* loose conduct,*+
20 idolatry, practice of spiritism,*+ enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects,*
21 envies, drunken+ bouts, revelries, and things like these. As to these things I am forewarning YOU, the same way as I did forewarn YOU, that those who practice+ such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.+
22 On the other hand, the fruitage+ of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness,+ faith,
23 mildness, self-control.+ Against such things there is no law.+
24 Moreover, those who belong to Christ Jesus impaled* the flesh together with its passions and desires.+
25 If we are living by spirit, let us go on walking orderly also by spirit.+
26 Let us not become egotistical, stirring up competition+ with one another,* envying one another.+
Footnotes
^ Or, “With her freedom.” Gr., Tei e·leu·the·riʹai.
^ Lit., “hope of righteousness.”
^ “Jesus.” B omits.
^ “I am confident in Jehovah concerning you,” J7,8.
^ Or, “the offense.” Lit., “the fall-causer.” Gr., to skanʹda·lon; Lat., scanʹda·lum.
^ See App 5C.
^ “Would even get themselves emasculated,” P46אABD; J7,8, “would even be cut off from before the eyes of Jehovah.”
^ Or, “shall.”
^ Or, “filthiness; depravity; lewdness.” Gr., a·ka·thar·siʹa; J17,22(Heb.), tum·ʼahʹ. See Eze 22:15 ftn, “Uncleanness.”
^ Or, “licentiousness; wantonness; shameless conduct.” Gr., a·selʹgei·a; Vgc(Lat.), im·pu·di·ciʹti·a; J18,22(Heb.), zim·mahʹ. See Pr 10:23 ftn, “Conduct.”
^ See App 5A.
^ “Sects.” Gr., hai·reʹseis; Lat., secʹtae.
^ Or, “fastened on a stake (pole).” See App 5C.
^ Or, “forcing one another to a showdown.”
