Galatians 5
1 Christ set us free so we could have real freedom. So stand firm and don't get burdened down again by a yoke of slavery.
Stand therefore in that liberty with which the Meshiha hath freed you, and be not enthralled with the yoke of bondage.
2 Let me, Paul, tell you bluntly: if you rely on the way of circumcision, Christ will be of absolutely no benefit to you.
Behold, I, Paulos, tell you, that if you be circumcised, the Meshiha profiteth you nothing.
3 Let me repeat: every man who is circumcised has to keep the whole of the law.
But I attest again to every man who is circumcised, that he is obligated to fulfil the whole law.
4 Those of you who think you can be made right by the law are cut off from Christ—you have abandoned grace.
You have ceased from the Meshiha who are justified by the law, and from grace you have fallen.
5 For through the Spirit we trust and wait in hope to be made right.
But we through the Spirit, who is from faith, expect the hope of righteousness.
6 For in Christ Jesus being circumcised or uncircumcised doesn't achieve anything; it's only trust working through love that matters.
For, in the Meshiha Jeshu, circumcision is not any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which is made perfect by love.
7 You were doing so well! Who got in the way and prevented you from being convinced by the truth?
Well did you run; who hath impeded you, that to the truth you should not be in obedience?
8 This “persuasion” certainly isn't from the one who calls you.
Your persuasion is not from him who called you.
9 You only need a little bit of yeast to raise the whole batch of dough.
A little leaven the whole mass leaveneth.
10 I'm confident in the Lord that you won't change the way you think, and that the one who is confusing you will face the consequences, whoever he is.
I am confident of you in our Lord, that no other thing you will think; and he who disturbeth you shall bear judgment, whoever he is.
11 As for me, brothers and sisters, if I were still advocating circumcision—why am I still persecuted? If that was true, it would remove the issue of the cross that offends people so much.
But I, my brethren, if yet I have preached for circumcision, why have I been persecuted? Hath the scandal of the cross ceased?
12 If only those who are causing you trouble would go even further than circumcision and castrate themselves!
But I would that they who disturb you were even cut off.
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to freedom! Just don't use your freedom as an excuse to indulge your sinful human nature—instead serve one another in love.
But you have been called unto liberty, my brethren: only let not your liberty be for an occasion of the flesh; but in love be subjected one to another.
14 For the whole law is summed up in this one command, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
For all the law in one word is fulfilled, in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15 But if you attack and tear into one other, watch out that you don't completely destroy yourselves!
But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest one by another you be consumed.
16 My advice is to walk by the Spirit. Don't satisfy the desires of your sinful human nature.
But I say to you, Walk in the Spirit, and the desires of the flesh you will not work.
17 For the desires of the sinful nature are opposed to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are opposed to the sinful nature. They fight one another, so you don't do what you want to do.
For the flesh desireth that which is repugnant to the Spirit, and the Spirit desireth that which is repugnant to the flesh; and the two are adverse one to the other, that not any thing that you will you may do.
18 But if the Spirit leads you, you're not under the law.
But if by the Spirit you are led, you are not under the law.
19 It's clear what the sinful human nature produces: sexual immorality, indecency, sensuality,
For the works of the flesh are known, which are (these), fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, rivalry, jealousy, anger, selfish ambition, dissension, heresy,
the worship of idols, sorcery, enmity, contention, ambition, wrath, calumny, divisions, rendings,
21 envy, drunkenness, feasting, and similar things. As I warned you before so I warn you again: nobody who behaves like this will inherit the kingdom of God.
envy, murder, drunkenness, revelling, and all that are like these; and they who do them, as I told you before, so now I tell you, the kingdom of Aloha do not inherit.
22 But the Spirit produces fruit such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trust,
But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, prolonging of the spirit, benignity, goodness, fidelity,
23 gentleness, self-control—and there's no law against these kinds of things!
meekness, patience; against these the law is not set.
24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed to the cross their sinful human nature, together with all their sinful passions and desires.
But they who are of the Meshiha have crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its lusts:
25 If we live in the Spirit we should also walk in the Spirit.
live we therefore in the Spirit,
26 Let's not become boastful, or irritate and envy one another.
and let us not be vain-glorious, contemning one another, envying one another.
