Stand firm therefore in the liberty for which al-Masih has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, al-Masih will profit you nothing. 3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is obligated to observe the Taurat’s entire shariah. 4You are alienated from al-Masih, you who desire to be justified by shariah. You have fallen away from grace. 5For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. 6For in al-Masih ‘Isa neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor the lack of it, but faith working through love. 7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth? 8This persuasion is not from him who called you. 9A little yeast grows through the whole lump. 10I have confidence about you in the Lord that you will think in no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
11But brothers, if I still preach the need to be circumcised, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling-block of the cross has been removed. 12I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off. 13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. 14For the Taurat’s whole shariah is fulfilled in this one statement: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.“[1] 15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you do not consume each another. 16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to each other, that you may not do the things that you desire. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under shariah. 19Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21envyings, 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 the Kingdom of Allah.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no shariah. 24Those who belong to al-Masih have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
[1] 5:14 Quoting the Taurat, Leviticus 19:18.