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Galatians 5

5
Freedom Based on Favor
1For freedom, Messiah set us free—so stand firm, and do not be burdened by a yoke of slavery again.
2Listen—I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Messiah will be of no benefit to you.
3Again I testify to every man who lets himself be circumcised, that he is obligated to keep the whole Torah.
4You who are trying to be justified by Torah have been cut off from Messiah; you have fallen away from grace.
5For through the Ruach, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
6For in Messiah Yeshua, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any meaning—but only trust and faithfulness expressing itself through love.
7You were running a great race! Who blocked you from following the truth?
8This detour doesn’t come from the One who calls you.
9A little hametz works its way through the whole batch of dough!
10I am confident in the Lord that you will not think otherwise. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he is.
11As for me, brothers and sisters, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the stumbling block of the cross has been eliminated.
12I only wish those who are agitating you would castrate themselves!
Walking by the Ruach
13Brothers and sisters, you were called to freedom—only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
14For the whole Torah can be summed up in a single saying: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
15But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not destroyed by one another.
16But I say, walk by the Ruach, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
17For the flesh sets its desire against the Ruach, but the Ruach sets its desire against the flesh—for these are in opposition to one another, so that you cannot do what you want.
18But if you are led by the Ruach, you are not under law.
19Now the deeds of the flesh are clear: sexual immorality, impurity, indecency,
20idolatry, witchcraft, hostility, strife, jealousy, rage, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,
21envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, just as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.
22But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23gentleness, and self-control—against such things there is no law.
24Now those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25If we live by the Ruach, let us also walk by the Ruach.
26Let us not become conceited—provoking one another, envying one another.

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