Galatians 5

¹Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.

²Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

³And I witness again to every man [who is] circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.

⁴Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated [from him], as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.

⁵For we, by [the] Spirit, on the principle of faith, await the hope of righteousness.

⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

⁷Ye ran well; who has stopped you that ye should not obey the truth?

⁸The persuasibleness [is] not of him that calls you.

⁹A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

¹⁰I have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.

¹¹But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

¹²I would that they would even cut themselves off who throw you into confusion.

¹³For ye have been called to liberty, brethren; only [do] not [turn] liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;