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!

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a 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 receive circumcision, 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.

Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, 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;

Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

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

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

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

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

Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

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

This persuasion [came] 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 to you-ward in 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.

But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.

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

I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.

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 ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

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

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor 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;

But I say, Walk by 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; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

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

But if ye are 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, which are [these]: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,

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, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, 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, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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

meekness, self-control; 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 of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

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

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

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

Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.