5:7 You were running well; who prevented you from obeying ²  the truth? 5:8 This persuasion ³  does not come from the one who calls you! 5:9 A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise! ⁴  5:10 I am confident ⁵  in the Lord that you will accept no other view. ⁶  But the one who is confusing ⁷  you will pay the penalty, ⁸  whoever he may be. 5:11 Now, brothers and sisters, ⁹  if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? ¹⁰  In that case the offense of the cross ¹¹  has been removed. ¹²  5:12 I wish those agitators ¹³  would go so far as to ¹⁴  castrate themselves! ¹⁵ 

5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; ¹⁶  only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, ¹⁷  but through love serve one another. ¹⁸  5:14 For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, ¹⁹  namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” ²⁰  5:15 However, if you continually bite and devour one another, ²¹  beware that you are not consumed ²²  by one another. 5:16 But I say, live ²³  by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. ²⁴  5:17 For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires ²⁵  that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to ²⁶  each other, so that you cannot do what you want. 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 5:19 Now the works of the flesh ²⁷  are obvious: ²⁸  sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, ²⁹  hostilities, ³⁰  strife, ³¹  jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, ³²  factions, 5:21 envying, ³³  murder, ³⁴  drunkenness, carousing, ³⁵  and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit ³⁶  is love, ³⁷  joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ³⁸  5:23 gentleness, and ³⁹  self-control. Against such things there is no law. 5:24 Now those who belong to Christ ⁴⁰  have crucified the flesh ⁴¹  with its passions ⁴²  and desires. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with ⁴³  the Spirit.