Galatians 5

1 Stand firm, and do not be willing to be again held by the yoke of servitude.

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

2 Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you have been circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

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

3 For I again testify, about every man circumcising himself, that he is obligated to act according to the entire law.

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

4 You are being emptied of Christ, you who are being justified by the law. You have fallen from grace.

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

5 For in spirit, by faith, we await the hope of justice.

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

6 For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything, but only faith which works through charity.

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

7 You have run well. So what has impeded you, that you would not obey the truth?

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

8 This kind of influence is not from him who is calling you.

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

9 A little leaven corrupts the whole mass.

A little leaven, leaveneth, the whole lump.

10 I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will accept nothing of the kind. However, he who disturbs you shall bear the judgment, whomever he may be.

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.

11 And as for me, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still suffering persecution? For then the scandal of the Cross would be made empty.

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.

12 And I wish that those who disturb you would be torn away.

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

13 For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.

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;

14 For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not consumed by one another!

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

16 So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

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

17 For the flesh desires against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And since these are against one another, you may not do whatever you want.

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!

18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

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

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence,

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

20 the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions,

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

21 envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

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.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,

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

23 meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.

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

24 For those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires.

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

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

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

26 Let us not become desirous of empty glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

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