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Galatians 5 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Christ Has Set Us Free

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:1 - For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:2 - Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:3 - I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:4 - You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified[fn] by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:5 - For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:6 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:7 - You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:8 - This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:9 - A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:10 - I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:11 - But if I, brothers,[fn] still preach[fn] circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:12 - I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:13 - For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:14 - For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:15 - But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Keep in Step with the Spirit

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:16 - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:17 - For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:18 - But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:19 - Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:20 - idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:21 - envy,[fn] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do[fn] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:23 - gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:24 - And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:25 - If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:26 - Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
ESV Footnotes
Or counted righteous
Or brothers and sisters; also verse 13
Greek proclaim
Some manuscripts add murder
Or make a practice of doing
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