1For freedom Messiah has set us free: stand fast therefore, and do not be entangled again in a yoke of bondage. 2Behold, I Paul say to you, that, if you receive circumcision, Messiah will profit you nothing. 3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole Torah. 4You are severed from Messiah, you who would be justified by the Torah; you have fallen away from grace. 5For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. 6For in Messiah Yeshua neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. 7You were running well; who hindered you that you should not obey the truth? 8This persuasion did not come from him who calls you. 9A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 10I have confidence toward you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind: but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is. 11But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then the stumbling block of the cross has been done away. 12I wish that those who unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision. 13For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not use your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. 14For the whole Torah is fulfilled in one word, even in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 15But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another. 16But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; so that you may not do the things that you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under Torah. 19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, 21envyings, drunkenness, revelings, and the like; of which I forewarn you, even as I forewarned you, that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23meekness, self-control; against such there is no law. 24And those who are of Messiah Yeshua have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. 26Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.