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1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.Cross-references: Ps 51:12 · Prov 23:23 · Isa 61:1 · Matt 11:28 · Matt 23:4 · John 8:32 · +33 more
2Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.Cross-references: Acts 15:1 · Acts 15:24 · Acts 16:3 · Rom 9:31 · Rom 10:2 · 1Cor 16:21 · +8 more
3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.Cross-references: Deut 8:19 · Deut 27:26 · Deut 31:21 · Neh 9:29 · Neh 9:34 · Matt 23:16 · +10 more
4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.Cross-references: Rom 3:20 · Rom 4:4 · Rom 9:31 · Rom 10:3 · Rom 11:6 · Gal 1:6 · +8 more
5For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.Cross-references: Gen 49:18 · Ps 25:3 · Ps 25:5 · Ps 62:5 · Ps 130:5 · Lam 3:25 · +10 more
6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.Cross-references: Matt 25:31 · Rom 2:25 · Rom 3:29 · 1Cor 7:19 · 2Cor 5:14 · Gal 3:28 · +10 more
7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?Cross-references: Matt 13:21 · Acts 6:7 · Rom 2:8 · Rom 6:17 · Rom 10:16 · Rom 15:18 · +9 more
8This persuasion is not from him who calls you.Cross-references: Rom 8:28 · Gal 1:6
9A little yeast grows through the whole lump.Cross-references: Matt 16:6 · Matt 23:33 · Mark 8:15 · Luke 12:1 · Luke 13:21 · 1Cor 5:6 · +2 more
10I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.Cross-references: Acts 15:1 · Acts 15:24 · 1Cor 5:5 · 2Cor 1:15 · 2Cor 2:3 · 2Cor 2:6 · +21 more
11But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.Cross-references: Isa 8:14 · Acts 16:3 · Acts 21:21 · Acts 21:28 · Acts 22:21 · Acts 23:13 · +10 more
12I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.Cross-references: Gen 17:14 · Ex 12:15 · Ex 30:33 · Lev 22:3 · Josh 7:12 · Josh 7:25 · +10 more
13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.Cross-references: Isa 61:1 · Mark 10:43 · Luke 4:18 · John 8:32 · John 13:14 · Acts 20:35 · +20 more
14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Cross-references: Lev 19:18 · Lev 19:34 · Matt 7:12 · Matt 19:18 · Matt 22:39 · Mark 12:31 · +7 more
15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.Cross-references: 2Sam 2:26 · Isa 9:20 · Isa 11:5 · Isa 11:13 · 1Cor 3:3 · 1Cor 6:6 · +5 more
16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.Cross-references: Rom 6:12 · Rom 8:1 · Rom 8:4 · Rom 8:12 · Rom 13:13 · 1Cor 7:29 · +15 more
17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.Cross-references: Ps 19:12 · Ps 51:1 · Ps 51:10 · Ps 65:3 · Ps 119:4 · Ps 119:20 · +28 more
18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.Cross-references: Ps 25:4 · Ps 25:8 · Ps 143:8 · Prov 8:20 · Isa 48:16 · Ezek 36:27 · +11 more
19Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,Cross-references: Ps 17:4 · Ezek 22:6 · Matt 15:18 · Mark 7:21 · John 3:6 · Rom 1:21 · +23 more
20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,Cross-references: Deut 18:10 · 1Sam 15:23 · 1Chr 10:13 · 2Chr 33:6 · Ezek 22:18 · Acts 8:9 · +6 more
21envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.Cross-references: Deut 21:20 · Isa 3:11 · Matt 25:34 · Luke 21:34 · Rom 2:8 · Rom 8:13 · +11 more
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,Cross-references: Ps 1:3 · Ps 92:14 · Hos 14:8 · Matt 7:16 · Matt 12:33 · Luke 8:14 · +32 more
23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.Cross-references: Acts 24:25 · 1Cor 9:25 · 1Tim 1:9 · Titus 1:8 · Titus 2:2
24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.Cross-references: Rom 6:6 · Rom 8:9 · Rom 8:13 · Rom 13:14 · 1Cor 3:23 · 1Cor 15:23 · +6 more
25If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.Cross-references: John 6:63 · Rom 8:2 · Rom 8:4 · Rom 8:10 · 1Cor 15:45 · 2Cor 3:6 · +3 more
26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.Cross-references: Luke 14:10 · 1Cor 3:7 · Gal 5:15 · Phil 2:1 · James 3:14 · James 4:16 · +1 more
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