Gal. 5

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1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

- For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Rom. 6:14

- All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 1 Cor. 6:12

- As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 1 Pet. 2:16

2. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

- For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Rom. 10:3

- And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. Rom. 11:6

- I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Gal. 2:21

3. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

- Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. Deut. 27:26

- For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Gal. 3:10

- For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10

4. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

- Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Rom. 3:20

- I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Gal. 2:21

- If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Heb. 6:6

5. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

- And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: John 16:8

- And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Rom. 5:5

- For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? Rom. 8:24

6. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

- Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 1 Cor. 7:19

- Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Cor. 5:17

- For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Gal. 6:15

7. Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

- Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 1 Cor. 9:24

- O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? Gal. 3:1

- Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Heb. 12:1

8. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

- I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Gal. 1:6

- I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Phil. 3:14

- Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 1 Thess. 5:24

9. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

- Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Matt. 13:33

- Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Matt. 16:12

- Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 1 Cor. 5:6

10. I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

- Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 2 Cor. 11:15

- Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. Gal. 1:7

- And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 2 Thess. 3:4

11. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

- Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek. Acts 16:3

- Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. Acts 21:24

- But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 1 Cor. 1:23

12. I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

- They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. Lev. 21:5

- And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. 1 Kings 18:28

- Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. Phil. 3:2

13. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

- But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. 1 Cor. 8:9

- For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 1 Cor. 9:19

- As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 1 Pet. 2:16

14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

- Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Matt. 7:12

- For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Rom. 13:9

- If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: James 2:8

15. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

- Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 1 Cor. 6:7

- For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 2 Cor. 11:20

- For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: 2 Cor. 12:20

16. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

- Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Rom. 6:12

- For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Rom. 8:13

- For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 1 Cor. 3:3

17. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

- For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. Rom. 7:15

- Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Rom. 8:7

- Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 1 Pet. 2:11

18. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

- For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Rom. 6:14

- Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Rom. 8:12

- For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Rom. 8:14

19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

- For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Mark 7:21

- Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. Rom. 13:13

- For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 1 Cor. 3:3

20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

- Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1 Cor. 1:10

- Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Col. 3:5

- But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Rev. 21:8

21. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

- And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Luke 21:34

- Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. Rom. 13:13

- Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 6:10

22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

- And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Ps. 1:3

- But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. Rom. 6:22

- Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Col. 3:12

23. Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

- If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Rom. 7:16

- But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 1 Tim. 1:8

- Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1 Tim. 1:9

24. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

- Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Rom. 6:6

- That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; Eph. 4:22

- Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Col. 3:5

25. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

- That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Rom. 8:4

- For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Rom. 8:5

- This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Gal. 5:16

26. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

- But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. Luke 14:10

- Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Rom. 12:10

- Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Phil. 2:3

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