¹in the freedom which the Anointed One has set us free; therefore stand firm, and not again be entangled in a yoke of slavery.

²Behold, I myself, Paul, say to you that if you shall become circumcised, the Anointed One will profit you no thing;

³now I testify again to every man being circumcised that he is a debtor to keep all the Law.

⁴You are severed from the Anointed One, whoever in the Law are being justified; you have fallen away from the favor.

⁵For we ourselves, through the Spirit, by trust eagerly await the hope of righteousness.

⁶For in the Anointed One Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any power, but only trust working through love.

⁷You were running well; who impeded you not to obey the truth?

⁸This persuasion is not of the One calling you.

⁹A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

¹⁰I myself have been confident as to you in the Lord that you will reason no thing other; however the one troubling you, he will bear the judgment, whoever he maybe shall be.

¹¹Now I myself, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

¹²I wish also those who upset you will emasculate themselves.

¹³For you yourselves were called to freedom, brothers; only do not turn the freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

¹⁴For the entire Law has been fulfilled in one word, in this: you will love your neighbour as yourself.

¹⁵However if you bite and devour one another, take heed lest by one another you may be consumed.

¹⁶Now I say, walk by the Spirit, and the desire of the flesh you may certainly not gratify.

¹⁷For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are opposed to one another, in order that you may not do those things which you shall wish.

¹⁸However if by the Spirit you are led, you are not under the Law.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are adultery, sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

²⁰idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, contentions, dissensions, factions,

²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, carousing, and things like as these; which I forewarn you, even as I also warned before, that those doing such things will not inherit God's kingdom.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

²³gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

²⁴Now those of the Anointed One Jesus crucified the flesh with its passions and the desires.

²⁵If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit also we shall walk.

²⁶We may not become boastful, provoking one another, envying one another.