5:1  Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

5:2  Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

5:3  And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.

5:4  You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

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

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

5:7  You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

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

5:9  A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

5:10  I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

5:11  And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.

5:12  I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!

5:13  For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

5:15  But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

5:16  I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

5:17  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

5:18  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

5:19  Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

5:20  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

5:21  envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

5:23  gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

5:24  And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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

5:26  Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.