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 firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you 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.

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives 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;

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have 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 nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.

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

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

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

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

9 A little leaven, leaveneth, the whole lump.

A little yeast grows through 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 towards you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgement, whoever he is.

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, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

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

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves 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;

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one 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, in this: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

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

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one 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 you won’t 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 lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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

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

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

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

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

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

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, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practise such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

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, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

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

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.