Galatians 5:13-26 - Practice Love

13 for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another. 14 for all the law is comprehended in this one precept, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." 15 but if you bite and tear one another, take heed that you be not consumed by one another.

16 I say then, conduct yourselves by the spirit, and you will not then gratify the animal passions. 17 for the vicious desires are contrary to those of the spirit, and the inclinations of the spirit are contrary to those of the animal part; these are opposite to each other, so that you do not the things that you would. 18 but if you are governed by the spirit, you are not subject to the law.

19 now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness, 20 brutality, idolatry, poisoning, enmities, quarrels, emulations, animosities, strife, seditions, factions, envyings, 21 drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance: 23 against such there is no law. 24 now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof. 25 if we live by the spirit, let us regulate our actions by the spirit: 26 let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.