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Galatians 5 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Christian Liberty
The Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:1 - Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free,[fn] and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:2 - Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:3 - And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:4 - You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:6 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
Love Fulfills the Law

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:8 - This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:10 - I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:11 - And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:12 - I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:13 - For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:14 - For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:15 - But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!
Walking in the Spirit

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:16 - I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:17 - For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:19 - Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[fn] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:20 - idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:21 - envy, murders,[fn] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:24 - And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:25 - If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:26 - Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
NU-Text reads For freedom Christ has made us free; stand fast therefore.
Leviticus 19:18
NU-Text omits adultery.
NU-Text omits murders.
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