5: 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
5: 3 Yes, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
5: 4 Ye are 61severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.
61Gk. brought to nought Compare Ro 7:2, 6 (in Gk.)
5: 5 For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
5: 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith 62working through love.
62Or, wrought
5: 7 Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?
5: 8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
5: 9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
5: 10 I have confidence towards you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his condemnation, whosoever he be.
5: 11 But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.
5: 12 I would that they that unsettle you would even 63go beyond circumcision.
63Lit., chop off their private parts.
5: 13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
5: 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: 64Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
64Lv 19:18.
5: 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
5: 16 But I say, Walk by the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
5: 17 For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.
5: 18 But if ye are led by the spirit, ye are not under the law.
5: 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
5: 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, 65parties,
65Gk. heresies, See footnote on 1Co 11:19.
5: 21 envyings,66 drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I 67forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit a kingdom of God.
66So p46ℵB 33 81 copsa. But CA 1175 and most lesser Gk. mss., copbo arm vg add murders,
67Or, tell you plainly (both times)
5: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
5: 23 meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
5: 24 And they that are of Christ 68Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
68So BCA 1739 33 copsa,bo. p46 81 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm vg omit Jesus
5: 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
5: 26 Let us not become vainglorious, 69provoking one another, envying one another.
69Or, challenging
