Galatians 5
5
Freedom of the Christian
1Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm # Rm 14:4; Php 1:27 then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery. # Gl 4:22 2Take note! I, Paul, tell you that if you get yourselves circumcised, Christ will not benefit you at all. 3Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to keep the entire law. 4You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace. # 2Pt 3:18 5For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait # Jd 21 for the hope # Rm 8:23-25; 1Th 1:3 of righteousness. 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith # 1Th 1:3 working through love. # 1Co 13:1; Jms 2:18-22
7You were running well. Who prevented you from obeying the truth? # Jn 8:14; 1Jn 5:20 8This persuasion did not come from the One who called you. # Col 3:15; 1Pt 1:15 9A little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough. 10I have confidence in the Lord you will not accept any other view. But whoever it is that is confusing you will pay the penalty. # Mk 12:40 11Now brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross # Lk 9:23 has been abolished. 12I wish those who are disturbing you might also get themselves castrated!
13For you were called # Col 3:15 to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love. 14For the entire law is fulfilled # Mt 1:22 in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself. # Lv 19:18; Mt 7:12; 19:19; 22:37-40; Jn 13:34 # Lv 19:18 15But if you bite and devour # Gl 5:20; Php 3:2,20 one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
The Spirit versus the Flesh
16I say then, walk by the Spirit # Rm 8:4; 1Tm 3:16; 2Pt 1:4; 2:10 and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17For the flesh desires # 1Pt 2:11 what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want. # Rm 7:15,23; Php 2:13 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: # Other mss add adultery # Lit obvious, which are: sexual immorality, # Mk 7:21; 1Th 4:3 moral impurity, # 1Th 4:7 promiscuity, # Mk 7:22 20idolatry, # Col 3:5; 1Pt 4:3 sorcery, # Rv 18:23 hatreds, # Rm 8:7 strife, # Ti 3:9 jealousy, # Jms 3:4 outbursts of anger, # Rv 14:19 selfish ambitions, # Rm 2:8 dissensions, # Rm 16:17 factions, # 2Pt 2:1 21envy, # Other mss add murders # Rm 1:29 drunkenness, carousing, # Rm 13:13; 1Pt 4:3 and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance — as I told you before — that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. # 1Co 6:10; 15:50
22But the fruit of the Spirit # Mt 7:16-20; Rm 6:21; 7:4; 8:5; Eph 5:9 is love, # 1Co 13:1; Phm 5 joy, # Jn 15:11; 2Co 6:10 peace, patience, # Ex 34:6; 2Tm 3:10 kindness, # Ps 25:6; 2Co 6:6 goodness, faith, # Or faithfulness 23gentleness, # Jms 3:13 self-control. # 2Pt 1:6 Against such things there is no law. 24Now those who belong to Christ Jesus # Nm 3:12 have crucified the flesh # Rm 8:12 with its passions and desires. # 2Pt 1:4; 2:10 25Since we live # Php 1:21; 3:16 by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit. 26We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. # Php 2:3
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Galatians 5
5
1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Messiah has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Messiah will profit you nothing. 3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4You are alienated from Messiah, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace. 5For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. 6For in Messiah Yeshua neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
7 You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth? 8This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 9A little yeast grows through the whole lump. 10I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
11 But I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed. 12I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. 14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”#Leviticus 19:18 15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,#5:22 or, faithfulness 23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit. 26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
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