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

¹ It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery. ² Understand that I, Paul, myself tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will avail you nothing. ³ I again declare to every one who receives circumcision, that he binds himself to obey the whole Law. ⁴ You have severed yourselves from Christ--you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love. ⁵ For we, by the help of the Spirit, are eagerly waiting for the fulfillment of our hope--that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith. ⁶ If a man is in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything.

⁷ You were once making good progress! Who has hindered you from obeying the Truth? ⁸ The persuasion brought to bear on you does not come from him who calls you. ⁹ A little leaven leavens all the dough. ¹⁰ I, through my union with the Lord, am persuaded that you will learn to think with me. But the man who is disturbing your minds will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be. ¹¹ If I, Brothers, am still proclaiming circumcision, why am I still persecuted? It seems that the Cross has ceased to be an obstacle! ¹² I could even wish that the people who are unsettling you would go further still and mutilate themselves.

¹³ Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit. ¹⁴ Indeed, the whole Law has been summed up in this one precept- -'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.' ¹⁵ But, if you are continually wounding and preying upon one another, take care that you are not destroyed by one another.