< Galatians 5 >
1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Meshikha has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
2 Listen, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Meshikha will profit you nothing.
3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4 You are alienated from Meshikha, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
5 For we, through the Rukha, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
6 For in Meshikha Yeshua neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
7 You were running well. Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You are to love your neighbor as yourself."
15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you do not consume one another.
16 But I say, walk by the Rukha, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Rukha, and the Rukha against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
18 But if you are led by the Rukha, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Rukha is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
24 Those who belong to Meshikha have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
25 If we live by the Rukha, let us also walk by the Rukha.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.