MODERN LITERAL VERSION

5:1 Therefore stand-firm in the freedom to which Christ made us free and do not be held again in a yoke of bondage.

5:2 Behold, I Paul say to you*, that, if you* are circumcised, Christ will profit you* nothing.
5:3 Now, I am testifying again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
5:4 You* have been done-away-with, cut off from Christ, you* who are being justified by the law; you* have fallen from the grace of God.
5:5 For* we are waiting for the hope of righteousness from faith by the Spirit.
5:6 For* in Christ Jesus neither circumcision, nor uncircumcision prevails over anything, but faith working through love*.
5:7 You* were running well; who hindered you* that you* should not obey the truth?
5:8 This persuasion is not from him who is calling you*.
5:9 A little leaven leavens the whole batch.
5:10 I have confidence in you* in the Lord, that you* will not be mindful of another person and he who is disturbing you* will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
5:11 But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Consequently, has the offense of the cross been done-away?
5:12 I wish-that those who are unsettling you* will even castrate themselves.

5:13 For* brethren, you* were called to freedom; only do not use your* freedom *for a starting-point for the flesh, but serve* one another through love*.
5:14 For* all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this: ‘You will love* your neighbor like yourself.' {Lev. 19:18}
5:15 But if you* are biting and devouring one another, beware, that you* may not be consumed by one another.

5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit and you* may never* accomplish the lust of the flesh.
5:17 For* the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh, and these lay in opposition to one another; that* you* may not do the things that you* would wish.
5:18 But if you* are led by the Spirit, you* are not under the law.

5:19 Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, unbridled-lusts,
5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, selfish ambitions, dissensions, sects,
5:21 envies, murders, drunkenness, revelings and things similar to these; which I am telling to you* beforehand, also just-as I did say to you* beforehand, that those who are practicing similar things– they will not inherit the kingdom of God!

5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love*, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
5:23 meekness and self-control. There is no law against such.
5:24 But those who are of Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and its lusts.

5:25 If we live by the Spirit, we should also march by the Spirit.
5:26 Do not become conceited, inflaming one another, envying one another.