Galatians 5

1 With her freedom, Christ hath made you, free. Stand fast, therefore, and do not, again, with a yoke of servitude, be held fast!

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

2 See! I, Paul, say unto you—if ye be getting circumcised, Christ will profit you, nothing.

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

3 Yea, I bear solemn witness again, unto every man getting circumcised, —that he is, a debtor, to do, the whole law.

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

4 Ye have been set aside from Christ, ye who, by law, are to be declared righteous, —out of his favour, ye have fallen;

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

5 For, we, in Spirit, by faith, for a hope of righteousness, are ardently waiting, —

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

6 For, in Christ [Jesus], neither, circumcision, availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith, through love, energising.

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

7 Ye were running well: —who hath hindered you, that, by truth, ye are not to be persuaded?

Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

8 The persuasion, [is] not of him that calleth you: —

This persuasion [cometh] not of him that calleth you.

9 A little leaven, leaveneth, the whole lump.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

10 I, am persuaded regarding you, in the Lord—that, for nothing else, ye will have any regard; but, he that is troubling you, shall bear the sentence, —whosoever he may be.

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

11 I, however, brethren—if, circumcision, I yet proclaim, why am I yet persecuted? After all, the stumbling-block of the cross hath been set aside.

And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

12 Oh! that they would even leave off in dismay, who are unsettling you!

I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

13 For, ye, on a footing of freedom, were called, brethren, —only, [turn] not your freedom into an occasion to the flesh, but, by means of your love, be serving one another;

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

14 For, the whole law, in one word, is summed up—[namely] in this, —Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

15 If, however, one another, ye bite and devour, take heed lest, by one another, ye be consumed!

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

16 I say, moreover—by Spirit, be walking, and, fleshly coveting, ye will in nowise fulfil;

[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For, the flesh, coveted against the Spirit, but, the Spirit, against the flesh, —for, these, unto one another, are opposed, lest, whatsoever things ye chance to desire, these, ye should be doing!

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 And, if, by Spirit, ye are being led, ye are not under law.

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

19 Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which, indeed, are—fornication, impurity, wantonness,

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 idolatry, enchantment, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of wrath, factions, divisions, parties,

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 envyings, drunkenness, revellings; —and such things as these: as to which I forewarn you, even as I have forewarned you, —that, they who such things as these do practise, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom.

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But, the fruit of the Spirit, is—love, joy, peace, long-suffering, graciousness, goodness, faithfulness,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 meekness, self-control; —against such things as these, there is no law.

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And, they who are of Christ Jesus, have crucified, the flesh, with its susceptibilities and covetings.

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

25 If we live by Spirit, by Spirit, let us also walk.

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

26 Let us not become vain-glorious, —one another, challenging, one another, envying.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.