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

¹ This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again. ² Why, I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ can do nothing for you. ³ I insist again to any man who lets himself be circumcised, that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law. ⁴ You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor. ⁵ But we, by the Spirit, through faith wait for the uprightness we hope for. ⁶ For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

⁷ You were making such progress! Who has stopped your obeying the truth? ⁸ That kind of persuasion never came from him who called you! ⁹ A little yeast will make all the dough rise. ¹⁰ I am confident in the Lord that you will not take a different view. The man who is unsettling you will have to pay the penalty for it, no matter who he is. ¹¹ And I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? If that is the case, the cross has ceased to be an obstacle, I suppose! ¹² I wish the people who are upsetting you would go on, and have themselves emasculated!

¹³ For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another. ¹⁴ For the whole Law is summed up in one saying: "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself." ¹⁵ But if you bite one another and eat one another, take care, or you will be destroyed by one another.