Galatians 5–6

¹In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free—stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; ²lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing; ³and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law; ⁴ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away; ⁵for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for, ⁶for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working. ⁷Ye were running well; who did hinder you—not to obey the truth? ⁸the obedience is not of him who is calling you! ⁹a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven; ¹⁰I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be. ¹¹And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away; ¹²O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

¹³For ye—to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another, ¹⁴for all the law in one word is fulfilled—in this: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;’ ¹⁵and if one another ye do bite and devour, see—that ye may not by one another be consumed. ¹⁶And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; ¹⁷for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will—these ye may not do; ¹⁸and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law. ¹⁹And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, ²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit. ²²And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³meekness, temperance: against such there is no law; ²⁴and those who are Christ’s, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires; ²⁵if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk; ²⁶let us not become vain-glorious—one another provoking, one another envying!

Chapter 6

¹Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself—lest thou also may be tempted; ²of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ, ³for if any one doth think himself to be something—being nothing—himself he doth deceive; ⁴and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other, ⁵for each one his own burden shall bear. ⁶And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing—in all good things. ⁷Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow—that also he shall reap, ⁸because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during; ⁹and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap—not desponding; ¹⁰therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

¹¹Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand; ¹²as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised—only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted, ¹³for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory. ¹⁴And for me, let it not be—to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world; ¹⁵for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation; ¹⁶and as many as by this rule do walk—peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God! ¹⁷Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body do bear. ¹⁸The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is with your spirit, brethren! Amen.

Chapter 1