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1基督释放了我们，叫我们得以自由。所以要站立得稳，不要再被奴仆的轭挟制。

基督徒的自由

2我—保罗告诉你们，若受割礼，基督就与你们无益了。

3我再指着凡受割礼的人确实地说，他是欠着行全律法的债。

4你们这要靠律法称义的，是与基督隔绝，从恩典中坠落了。

5我们靠着圣灵，凭着信心，等候所盼望的义。

6原来在基督耶稣里，受割礼不受割礼全无功效，惟独使人生发仁爱的信心才有功效。

7你们向来跑得好，有谁拦阻你们，叫你们不顺从真理呢？

8这样的劝导不是出于那召你们的。

9一点面酵能使全团都发起来。

10我在主里很信你们必不怀别样的心；但搅扰你们的，无论是谁，必担当他的罪名。

11弟兄们，我若仍旧传割礼，为什么还受逼迫呢？若是这样，那十字架讨厌的地方就没有了。

12恨不得那搅乱你们的人把自己割绝了。

13弟兄们，你们蒙召是要得自由，只是不可将你们的自由当作放纵情欲的机会，总要用爱心互相服事。

14因为全律法都包在「爱人如己」这一句话之内了。

15你们要谨慎，若相咬相吞，只怕要彼此消灭了。

圣灵的果子和肉体的恶行

16我说，你们当顺着圣灵而行，就不放纵肉体的情欲了。

17因为情欲和圣灵相争，圣灵和情欲相争，这两个是彼此相敌，使你们不能做所愿意做的。

18但你们若被圣灵引导，就不在律法以下。

19情欲的事都是显而易见的，就如奸淫、污秽、邪荡、

20拜偶像、邪术、仇恨、争竞、忌恨、恼怒、结党、纷争、异端、

21嫉妒、醉酒、荒宴等类。我从前告诉你们，现在又告诉你们，行这样事的人必不能承受 神的国。

22圣灵所结的果子，就是仁爱、喜乐、和平、忍耐、恩慈、良善、信实、

23温柔、节制。这样的事没有律法禁止。

24凡属基督耶稣的人，是已经把肉体连肉体的邪情私欲同钉在十字架上了。

25我们若是靠圣灵得生，就当靠圣灵行事。

26不要贪图虚名，彼此惹气，互相嫉妒。

1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

3Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

4Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

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

6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

7Ye were running well; who hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?

8This persuasion came not of him that calleth you.

9A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

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

11But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.

12I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.

13For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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

16But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

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

19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,

21envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

23meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

24And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

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

26Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.