Galatians 5–6

Chapter 5

Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

²Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

³And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

⁴You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace.

⁵For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice.

⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

⁷You did run well. What hath hindered you, that you should not obey the truth?

⁸This persuasion is not from him that calleth you.

⁹A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.

¹⁰I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be.

¹¹And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void.

¹²I would they were even cut off, who trouble you.

¹³For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

¹⁴For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹⁵But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not consumed one of another.

¹⁶I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

¹⁷For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

¹⁸But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,

²⁰Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,

²¹Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

²³Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.

²⁴And they that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.

²⁵If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

²⁶Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Chapter 6

Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

²Bear ye one another’s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ.

³For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

⁴But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another.

⁵For every one shall bear his own burden.

⁶And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.

⁷Be not deceived: God is not mocked.

⁸For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

⁹And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

¹⁰Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

¹¹See what a letter I have written to you with my own hand.

¹²For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ.

¹³For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

¹⁴But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁵For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but a new creature.

¹⁶And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them and mercy: and upon the Israel of God.

¹⁷From henceforth let no man be troublesome to me: for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body.

¹⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.