For you have been called to freedom,
brothers and sisters,
only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh,
but keep serving one another, through love.
For all the Jewish Law is fulfilled in a single phrase:
Love your neighbour as yourself.
If you bite and devour one another,
watch out lest you consume one another.
So I say to you, keep walking by the Spirit,
and then you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
For the flesh desires against the Spirit,
and the Spirit against the flesh
for these oppose one another,
so that you cannot do whatever you want to.
And if you are led by the Spirit
you are not under the Jewish Law.
But the works of the flesh are evident:
immorality, impurity, indecency,
idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, strife, jealousy, rages, selfish ambitions, dissensions, division, envy,
drunkenness, carousing
and similar things,
which I am warning you about,
(as I did warn)
that those who do these things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is:
love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Against these there is not a law.
And those of Christ have crucified the flesh
together with the affections and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us line up with the Spirit.
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
O Lord Jesus Christ,
stay beside me to defend me,
within me to guide me,
before me to lead me,
and above me to bless me,
that with you and in you,
I may live, and move and have my being,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
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