| Chapter 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 unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. -
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Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. -
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Ye are severed from Christ, ye would be justified by the law; ye 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 availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. -
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Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth? -
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This persuasion [came] not of him that calleth you. -
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A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. -
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I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. -
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But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath 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 ye, 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: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. -
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But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. -
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But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. -
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For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would. -
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But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye 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, longsuffering, 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. -
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