Freedom in Christ
1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.+ 2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.+ 3Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.+ 4Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.+ 5For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.+ 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.+ 7Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?+ 8This persuasion [came] not of him that calleth you.+ 9A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.+ 10I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.+ 11But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.+ 12I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.+ 13For 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.+ 14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.+ 15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.+Walking by the Spirit
Ezekiel 36:16–38; Romans 8:9–11
16But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.+ 17For 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.+ 18But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.+ 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,+ 20idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,+ 21envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.+ 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,+ 23meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.+ 24And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.+ 25If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.+ 26Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.+