5:1   For our freedom Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not subject yourself again to a yoke of slavery.

5:2  Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will not benefit you.

5:3   And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he placed himself under obligation to keep the whole Law.

5:4  You have severed yourself from Christ, you who seek justification by law; you have fallen from grace.

5:5  For we through the Spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of righteousness.

5:6  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

5:7   You had run well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?

5:8   This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you.

5:9   A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.

5:10   I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt no other view; but the one who disturbs you will bear his judgment, whoever he may represent.

5:11   But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still receive persecution? Then the stumbling block of the cross has become abolished.

5:12   I wish that those who trouble you would even mutilate themselves.

5:13  For God called you to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

5:14   For the whole Law we can fulfill in one word, in the statement, " YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

5:15   But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you do not consume one another.

5:16   But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

5:17  For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these oppose one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

5:18   But if the Spirit leads you, you will not find yourselves under the Law.

5:19   Now the deeds of the flesh become evident, namely: immorality, impurity, sensuality,

5:20   idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,

5:21  envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

5:22   But the fruit of the Spirit consists of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

5:23   gentleness, self-control; against such things no law exists.

5:24   Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

5:25   If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

5:26  Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.