Gal 5
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For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again
in a yoke of bondage.
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Behold, I Paul say to you, that, if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you
nothing.
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Yea, I testify again to every man that receives circumcision, that he is a debtor
to do the whole law.
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You are severed from Christ, you would be justified by the law; you are fallen away
from grace.
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For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but
faith working through love.
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You were running well; who hindered you that you should not obey the truth?
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This persuasion [came] not of him whom calls" you.
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A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
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I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded:
but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he be.
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But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then has
the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.
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I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.
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For you, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion
to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: You shall love your neighbor
as yourself.
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But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of
another.
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But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these
are contrary the one to the other; that you may not do the things that you would.
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But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]: fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness,
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idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
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envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as
I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom
of God.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
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And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the
lusts thereof.
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If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
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Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.