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

¹ STAND fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again held under a yoke of bondage. ² Behold, I Paul declare to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ will be of no advantage to you. ³ And again, I testify to every man who is circumcised, that he is under an obligation to keep the whole law. ⁴ Ye have vacated all expectations from Christ, as many of you as are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. ⁵ For we in spirit by faith expect the hope of righteousness. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith exerting its energy by love.

⁷ Ye were running well: who hath hindered you that ye should not obey the truth? ⁸ This persuasion cometh not from him who called you. ⁹ A little leaven leaveneth the whole mass. ¹⁰ I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be no otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear condign punishment whosoever he be. ¹¹ But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then indeed the offence of the cross is at an end. ¹² I wish that they who trouble you were cut off from you.

¹³ For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another. ¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ¹⁵ But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed by one another.