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Freedom in Christ

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

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Freedom in Christ

Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.

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Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.

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Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

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Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

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And I witness again to every man [who is] circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.

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You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

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Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.

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For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.

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For we, by [the] Spirit, on the principle of faith, await the hope of righteousness.

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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

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You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?

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Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

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That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

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The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.

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“A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.”

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A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

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I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty.

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*I* have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.

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Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

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But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

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As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

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I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw you into confusion.

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Life by the Spirit

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesha; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

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For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only [do] not [turn] liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

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For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”b

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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

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If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

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but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

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So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

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Living by the Spirit

But I say, Walk in [the] Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil flesh's lust.

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For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whateverc you want.

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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

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But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

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but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.

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The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;

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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

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idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions

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idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,

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and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

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gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

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Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

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Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

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If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.

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Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

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Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

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Galatians 5

Galatians 5