Galatians 4:31–5:6

³¹So then, my brothers and sisters, we are not the children of a slave woman but of a free woman.

Preserve Your Freedom

5Freedom is what we have—Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.

²Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, it means that Christ is of no use to you at all. ³Once more I warn any man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obliged to obey the whole Law. ⁴Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God’s grace. ⁵As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God’s Spirit working through our faith. ⁶For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.