Walk in the Freedom of the Spirit

¹It was for freedom that Christ set us free. Therefore y’all, stand firm and don’t be entangled again by a yoke of bondage.

²Look, I, Paul, am telling y’all that if y’all receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to y’all.

³Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.

⁴Y’all who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ. Y’all have fallen away from grace.

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

⁶For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.

⁷Y’all were running well! Who cut in to stop y’all from obeying the truth?

⁸This persuasion is not from him who calls y’all.

⁹A little yeast ferments the whole lump of dough.

¹⁰I have confidence in the Lord that y’all will have no other mindset. But the one who troubles y’all, whoever he is, will bear his judgment.

¹¹Siblings, if I still preach circumcision, why am I being persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

¹²I wish that those who disturb y’all would mutilate themselves.

¹³For y’all were called to freedom, siblings. Only don’t use y’all’s freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

¹⁴For the whole law is fulfilled in this one statement: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[#Leviticus 19:18]

¹⁵But if y’all bite and devour one another, be careful that y’all don’t destroy one another.

¹⁶But I say, y’all must walk by the Spirit, and then y’all won’t carry out the desire of the flesh.

¹⁷For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. They are in conflict with one another, so that y’all don’t do whatever y’all want.

¹⁸But if y’all are led by the Spirit, y’all are not under the law.

¹⁹Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

²⁰idolatry, magic drugs, hatred, infighting, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions,

²¹envy, drunkenness, hard partying, and things like these. I am warning y’all as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Empire of God.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

²³gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

²⁴Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

²⁵If we live by the Spirit, let’s also march in step with the Spirit.

²⁶Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another or envying one another.