Galatians 5
Complete Jewish Bible
5 What the Messiah has freed us for is freedom! Therefore, stand firm, and don’t let yourselves be tied up again to a yoke of slavery. 2 Mark my words — I, Sha’ul, tell you that if you undergo b’rit-milah the Messiah will be of no advantage to you at all! 3 Again, I warn you: any man who undergoes b’rit-milah is obligated to observe the entire Torah! 4 You who are trying to be declared righteous by God through legalism have severed yourselves from the Messiah! You have fallen away from God’s grace! 5 For it is by the power of the Spirit, who works in us because we trust and are faithful, that we confidently expect our hope of attaining righteousness to be fulfilled. 6 When we are united with the Messiah Yeshua, neither being circumcised nor being uncircumcised matters; what matters is trusting faithfulness expressing itself through love.
7 You were running the race well; who has stopped you from following the truth? 8 Whatever means of persuasion he used was not from the One who calls you. 9 “It takes only a little hametz to leaven the whole batch of dough.” 10 I am confident that since you are united with the Lord, you will take no other view; and I am confident that the one who has been disturbing you, whoever he may be, will have to bear his punishment.
11 And as for me, brothers, if I am still preaching that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, my preaching about the execution-stake would cause no offense whatever. 12 I wish the people who are bothering you would go the whole way and castrate themselves!
13 For, brothers, you were called to be free. Only do not let that freedom become an excuse for allowing your old nature to have its way. Instead, serve one another in love. 14 For the whole of the Torah is summed up in this one sentence: “Love your neighbor as yourself”;[a] 15 but if you go on snapping at each other and tearing each other to pieces, watch out, or you will be destroyed by each other!
16 What I am saying is this: run your lives by the Spirit. Then you will not do what your old nature wants. 17 For the old nature wants what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the old nature. These oppose each other, so that you find yourselves unable to carry out your good intentions. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, then you are not in subjection to the system that results from perverting the Torah into legalism.
19 And it is perfectly evident what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency; 20 involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue 21 and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 humility, self control. Nothing in the Torah stands against such things.
24 Moreover, those who belong to the Messiah Yeshua have put their old nature to death on the stake, along with its passions and desires. 25 Since it is through the Spirit that we have Life, let it also be through the Spirit that we order our lives day by day.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Footnotes
- Galatians 5:14 Leviticus 19:18
Gálatas 5
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Libertad en Cristo
5 Cristo nos libertó para que vivamos en libertad. Por lo tanto, manteneos firmes[a] y no os sometáis nuevamente al yugo de esclavitud.
2 Escuchad bien: yo, Pablo, os digo que, si os hacéis circuncidar, Cristo no os servirá de nada. 3 De nuevo declaro que todo el que se hace circuncidar está obligado a practicar toda la ley. 4 Aquellos de entre vosotros que tratáis de ser justificados por la ley habéis roto con Cristo; habéis caído de la gracia. 5 Nosotros, en cambio, por obra del Espíritu y mediante la fe, aguardamos con ansia la justicia que es nuestra esperanza. 6 En Cristo Jesús de nada vale estar o no estar circuncidados; lo que vale es la fe que actúa mediante el amor.
7 Vosotros estabais corriendo bien. ¿Quién os estorbó para que dejarais de obedecer a la verdad? 8 Tal instigación no puede venir de Dios, que es quien os ha llamado.
9 «Un poco de levadura fermenta toda la masa». 10 Yo por mi parte confío en el Señor que no pensaréis de otra manera. El que os está perturbando será castigado, sea quien sea. 11 Hermanos, si es verdad que yo todavía predico la circuncisión, ¿por qué se me sigue persiguiendo? Si tal fuera mi predicación, la cruz no ofendería tanto. 12 ¡Ojalá que esos instigadores acabaran por mutilarse del todo!
13 Os hablo así, hermanos, porque habéis sido llamados a ser libres; pero no os valgáis de esa libertad para dar rienda suelta a vuestras pasiones. Más bien servíos unos a otros con amor. 14 En efecto, toda la ley se resume en un solo mandamiento: «Ama a tu prójimo como a ti mismo».[b] 15 Pero, si seguís mordiéndoos y devorándoos, tened cuidado, no sea que acabéis por destruiros unos a otros.
La vida por el Espíritu
16 Así que os digo: Vivid por el Espíritu, y no seguiréis los deseos de la naturaleza pecaminosa. 17 Porque esta desea lo que es contrario al Espíritu, y el Espíritu desea lo que es contrario a ella. Los dos se oponen entre sí, de modo que no podéis hacer lo que quisierais. 18 Pero, si os guía el Espíritu, no estáis bajo la ley.
19 Las obras de la naturaleza pecaminosa se conocen bien: inmoralidad sexual, impureza y libertinaje; 20 idolatría y brujería; odio, discordia, celos, arrebatos de ira, rivalidades, disensiones, sectarismos 21 y envidia; borracheras, orgías, y otras cosas parecidas. Os advierto ahora, como antes lo hice, que los que practican tales cosas no heredarán el reino de Dios.
22 En cambio, el fruto del Espíritu es amor, alegría, paz, paciencia, amabilidad, bondad, fidelidad, 23 humildad y dominio propio. No hay ley que condene estas cosas. 24 Los que son de Cristo Jesús han crucificado la naturaleza pecaminosa, con sus pasiones y deseos. 25 Si el Espíritu nos da vida, andemos guiados por el Espíritu. 26 No dejemos que la vanidad nos lleve a irritarnos y a envidiarnos unos a otros.
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