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Galatians 5

He laboureth to draw them away from Circumcision, 17 And sheweth them the battle betwixt the spirit and the flesh, and the fruits of them both.
1.Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2.*Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be acircumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3.For I testify again to every man, which is circumcised, that he is bound to keep the whole Law.
4.Ye are *abolished from Christ: whosoever are justified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.
5.For we through the Spirit bwait for the hope of righteousness through faith.
6.For in Jesus Christ neither Circumcision availeth any thing, neither uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.
7.Ye did run well: who did let you, that ye did not obey the ctruth?
8.It is not the persuasion of him that dcalleth you.
9.*A little eleaven doeth leaven the whole lump.
10.I have trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise fminded: but he that troubleth you, shall bear his condemnation, whosoever he be.
11.And brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the gslander of the cross abolished.
12.Would to God they were even cut off, which do disquiet you.
13.For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty: only use not your liberty as an occasion unto the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14.For hall the Law is fulfilled in one word, which is this,*Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15.If ye bite and devour one another, take heed lest ye be consumed one of another.
16.Then I say, *walk in the iSpirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh.
17.For the kflesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: & these are contrary one to the other, so that ye can not do the same things that ye would.
18.And if ye be led by the lSpirit, ye are not under the Law.
19.Moreover the works of the flesh are manifest, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,
20.Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies,
21.Envy, murders, drunkenness, gluttony, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also have told you before, that they which do such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22.But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23.Meekness, temperance: against such there is mno Law.
24.For they that are Christ’s, nhave crucified the flesh with the affections and the lusts.
25.If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the oSpirit.
26.Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Notes

2-*.
Act. 15.2.
2-a.
If you join circumcision to the Gospel, as a thing necessary to salvation.
4-*.
1 Cor. 1.17.
5-b.
We live in hope through that Spirit which causes faith, and which is given to the faithful that we should by faith and not by the Law obtain the crown of glory, which Christ gives freely.
7-c.
Then whatsoever is not the word of God, which here he calls truth, is very lies.
8-d.
Which is God.
9-*.
1 Cor. 5.6.
9-e.
A little corruption does destroy the whole doctrine.
10-f.
That ye will embrace the word of God purely.
11-g.
That is, the doctrine of the Gospel, which the world abhorred, as a slanderous thing, and therewith were offended.
14-*.
Levi. 19.18, Mat. 22.39, Mar. 12.31, Rom. 13.9, Jam. 2.8.
14-h.
Meaning the second table.
16-*.
Rom. 13.14, 2 Pet. 2.10.
16-i.
In the man regenerate.
17-k.
That is, the natural man strives against the Spirit of regeneration.
18-l.
If you be guided by the Spirit of adoption, that which ye do, is agreeable to God although it be not perfect.
23-m.
For they are under the Spirit, or grace.
24-n.
Christ has not only remitted their sins, but sanctified them into newness of life.
25-o.
That being dead to sin and living to God, we may declare the same in holiness and innocency of life.