Freedom in Christ
1In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;+ 2lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;+ 3and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;+ 4ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;+ 5for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,+ 6for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.+ 7Ye were running well; who did hinder you--not to obey the truth?+ 8the obedience is not of him who is calling you!+ 9a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;+ 10I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.+ 11And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;+ 12O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!+ 13For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,+ 14for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'+ 15and if one another ye do bite and devour, see--that ye may not by one another be consumed.+Walking by the Spirit
Ezekiel 36:16–38; Romans 8:9–11
16And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;+ 17for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;+ 18and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.+ 19And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,+ 20idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,+ 21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.+ 22And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,+ 23meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;+ 24and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;+ 25if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;+ 26let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!+