Help QuickNav Adv. Options
ESV

ESV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Galatians 5 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Christ Has Set Us Free

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:1 - For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:2 - Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:3 - I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:4 - You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified[fn] by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:5 - For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:6 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:7 - You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:8 - This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:9 - A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:10 - I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:11 - But if I, brothers,[fn] still preach[fn] circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:12 - I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:13 - For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:14 - For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:15 - But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Keep in Step with the Spirit

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:16 - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:17 - For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:18 - But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:19 - Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:20 - idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:21 - envy,[fn] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do[fn] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:23 - gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:24 - And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:25 - If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:26 - Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Or counted righteous
Or brothers and sisters; also verse 13
Greek proclaim
Some manuscripts add murder
Or make a practice of doing
ESV

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016 by Crossway Books and Bibles, a Publishing Ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the ESV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
ESV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
ESV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Galatians Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras