¹Stand, therefore, in the freedom in which Christ has made us free, and do not be held again by the yoke of bondage. ²Look, I Paul say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will not benefit you in any way. ³And I testify again to every man who undergoes circumcision that he is a debtor to carry out the whole law. ⁴You who are justified by the law have become disconnected from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. ⁵For we by the spirit await the hope of righteousness from faith. ⁶For in Christ Jesus neither does circumcision effect anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith put in action through love does. ⁷You were running well. Who has undermined you in obeying the truth? ⁸That persuasion is not from the one who called you. ⁹A little leaven leavens the whole lump. ¹⁰I trust in you through the Lord that you have no other frame of mind, but he who is subverting you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. ¹¹And as for me, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offensiveness of the cross would have been made inapplicable. ¹²If only those who are unsettling you would dismember themselves! ¹³For you were called on the basis of freedom, brothers – only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another with love. ¹⁴For the whole law is fulfilled in one saying, in, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” ¹⁵But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not destroyed by one another. ¹⁶And I say, walk in the spirit and do not fulfil a desire of the flesh at all. ¹⁷For the flesh has desires against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; these are in opposition to each other, so that it is not what you want to do that you do. ¹⁸But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. ¹⁹And the works of the flesh are evident; they are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, rivalries, rage, contentions, dissensions, factions, ²¹envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies and similar things to these, which I am telling you about beforehand as I have also told you before, namely that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²²But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³meekness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. ²⁴And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and its desires. ²⁵If we live in the spirit, let us also march in line with the spirit. ²⁶Let us not become vainglorious, challenging one another, envying one another.

Reference(s) in Chapter 5: v.14 ↔ Leviticus 19:18.