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 with which the Messiah hath made us free; and be not subjected again to 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 to you, That if ye become circumcised, the Messiah is of no advantage to you.

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

And again, I testify to every one who becometh circumcised, that he is bound to fulfill 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 have renounced the Messiah, ye who seek justification by the law: and ye have apostatized from grace.

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

For we, through the Spirit, which is from faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

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

For, in the Messiah Jesus, circumcision is nothing, neither is uncircumcision, but the faith that is perfected 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 hath interrupted you, that ye acquiesce not in the truth?

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

The bias of your mind is not from him who called you.

9 A little leaven, leaveneth, the whole lump.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole mass.

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 confide in you through our Lord, that ye will entertain no other thoughts. And he that disquieteth you, shall bear his judgment, whoever he may 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, my brethren, if I still preached circumcision, why should I suffer persecution? Hath the offensiveness of the cross ceased?

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

But I would, that they who disquiet you, were actually cut off.

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;

And ye, my brethren, have been called into liberty: only let not your liberty be an occasion to the flesh; but, by love, be ye servants to each other.

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 sentence; 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, beware, lest ye be consumed one by another.

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

And I say: Walk ye in the Spirit; and never follow the cravings 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 craveth that which is repugnant to the Spirit; and the Spirit craveth that which is repugnant to the flesh: and the two are the opposites of each other, so that ye do not that which ye desire.

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

But if ye are guided by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

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

For the works of the flesh are known, which are whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness,

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

idol-worship, magic, malice, contention, rivalry, wrath, strife, divisions, discords,

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.

envy, murder, drunkenness, revelling, and all the like things. And they who perpetrate these things, as I have before told you, and also now tell you, do not inherit the kingdom of God.

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

But the fruits of the Spirit are, love, joy, peace, long suffering, suavity, kindness, fidelity, modesty, patience.

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

Against these there standeth no law.

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

And they who are of the Messiah, have crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its cravings.

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

Let us therefore live in the Spirit; and let us press on after the Spirit.

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

And let us not be vain-glorious, despising one another, and envying one another.