Galatians 5:1-15 - Live In Freedom And Love One Another

¹ Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. ³ I testify indeed again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to do the whole law. ⁴ You that are justified by law, have withdrawn from Christ: you have fallen from grace. ⁵ For we, through the Spirit which we obtain by faith, wait for the hope of righteousness. ⁶ For, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith that works by love.

⁷ You were running well; who kept you back from obedience to the truth? ⁸ This readiness to be persuaded is not from him that calls you. ⁹ A little leaven leavens the whole mass. ¹⁰ I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will cultivate no other disposition: but he that troubles you, who ever he may be, shall bear his condemnation. ¹¹ But, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then, the offense of the cross has ceased. ¹² that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!

¹³ For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love. ¹⁴ For all the law is fulfilled in one commandment, in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁵ But if you bite and devour one another, take heed lest you be utterly destroyed by one another.