¹ With her freedom, Christ hath made you, free. Stand fast, therefore, and do not, again, with a yoke of servitude, be held fast!

² See! I, Paul, say unto you—if ye be getting circumcised, Christ will profit you, nothing.

³ Yea, I bear solemn witness again, unto every man getting circumcised,—that he is, a debtor, to do, the whole law.

⁴ Ye have been set aside from Christ, ye who, by law, are to be declared righteous,—out of his favour, ye have fallen;

⁵ For, we, in Spirit, by faith, for a hope of righteousness, are ardently waiting,—

⁶ For, in Christ [Jesus], neither, circumcision, availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith, through love, energising.

⁷ Ye were running well:—who hath hindered you, that, by truth, ye are not to be persuaded?

⁸ The persuasion, [is] not of him that calleth you:—

⁹ A little leaven, leaveneth, the whole lump.

¹⁰ I, am persuaded regarding you, in the Lord—that, for nothing else, ye will have any regard; but, he that is troubling you, shall bear the sentence,—whosoever he may be.

¹¹ I, however, brethren—if, circumcision, I yet proclaim, why am I yet persecuted? After all, the stumbling-block of the cross hath been set aside.

¹² Oh! that they would even leave off in dismay, who are unsettling you!

¹³ For, ye, on a footing of freedom, were called, brethren,—only, [turn] not your freedom into an occasion to the flesh, but, by means of your love, be serving one another;

¹⁴ For, the whole law, in one word, is summed up—[namely] in this,—Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹⁵ If, however, one another, ye bite and devour, take heed lest, by one another, ye be consumed!

¹⁶ I say, moreover—by Spirit, be walking, and, fleshly coveting, ye will in nowise fulfil;

¹⁷ For, the flesh, coveted against the Spirit, but, the Spirit, against the flesh,—for, these, unto one another, are opposed, lest, whatsoever things ye chance to desire, these, ye should be doing!

¹⁸ And, if, by Spirit, ye are being led, ye are not under law.

¹⁹ Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which, indeed, are—fornication, impurity, wantonness,

²⁰ idolatry, enchantment, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of wrath, factions, divisions, parties,

²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revellings;—and such things as these: as to which I forewarn you, even as I have forewarned you,—that, they who such things as these do practise, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom.

²² But, the fruit of the Spirit, is—love, joy, peace, long-suffering, graciousness, goodness, faithfulness,

²³ meekness, self-control;—against such things as these, there is no law.

²⁴ And, they who are of Christ Jesus, have crucified, the flesh, with its susceptibilities and covetings.

²⁵ If we live by Spirit, by Spirit, let us also walk.

²⁶ Let us not become vain-glorious,—one another, challenging, one another, envying.