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 in 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 will 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.

And I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to 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 nothing to you, whosoever of you are seeking to be justified by the law: ye are fallen from the grace of the gospel.

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 Christ Jesus 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 hindered you from obeying the truth?

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

This persuasion came not from him that called you: but a little leaven leaveneth the whole mass.

9 A little leaven, leaveneth, the whole lump.

I have confidence in you however through the Lord,

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.

that ye will not think otherwise: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgement, 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 still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted by the Jews? for then the offence of the cross is ceased.

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

I wish they were even cut off from your communion, that make such disturbance amongst 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 abuse not this liberty for an occasion to indulge the flesh, but by mutual 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 precept, 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 destroyed by one another.

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

I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the desire 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 desireth things contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit things contrary to the flesh: and these are opposite to each other; so that ye do not those things which ye would.

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

But if ye be led by 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, such as, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,

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

lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, strifes, emulations, animosities, contentions, divisions,

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.

heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and the like: of which I forewarn you, as I have also told you before, that they who practise 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, long-suffering,

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

gentleness, goodness, fidelity, meekness, temperance: against such things 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 it's passions and desires.

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 vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.