[5:1] For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
[5:2] Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
[5:3] I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
[5:4] You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
[5:5] For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
[5:6] For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
[5:7] You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
[5:8] This persuasion is not from him who calls you.
[5:9] A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
[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.
[5:11] But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
[5:12] I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
[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.
[5:14] For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
[5:15] But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.