Freedom in Christ
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.+ 14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;+ 15but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.+Walking by the Spirit
Ezekiel 36:16–38; Romans 8:9–11
16But I say, Walk in [the] Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil flesh's lust.+ 17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;+ 18but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.+ 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,+ 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,+ 21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inheritGod's kingdom.+ 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,+ 23meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.+ 24But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.+ 25If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.+ 26Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.+