5 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

² and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor.

³ But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let them not once be named among you, as becometh saints;

⁴ neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not befitting, but rather giving of thanks.

⁵ For this ye know: that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

⁶ Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

⁷ Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

⁸ For ye were sometimes darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

¹⁰ proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them,

¹² for it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

¹³ But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light, for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

¹⁴ Therefore He saith: “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”

¹⁵ See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷ Therefore, be ye not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit,

¹⁹ speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

²⁰ giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

²¹ submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

²² Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord;

²³ for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and He is the savior of the body.

²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

²⁶ that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

²⁷ that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

²⁸ So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He hat loveth his wife loveth himself.

²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.

³⁰ For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.

³¹ “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”

³² This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

³³ Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

² Behold, I, Paul, say unto you that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

³ For I testify again to every man who is circumcised, that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.

⁴ Christ then becomes of no effect unto you, whosoever of you claim justification by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

⁵ For we, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

⁶ For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.

⁷ Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth?

⁸ This persuasion cometh not from Him that calleth you.

⁹ A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

¹⁰ I have confidence in you through the Lord that ye will be not otherwise minded; but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

¹¹ And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why then do I yet suffer persecution? Then would the offense of the cross cease.

¹² I would that they were even cut off which trouble you!

¹³ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion of the flesh, but by love serve one another.

¹⁴ For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”

¹⁵ But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye not be consumed one by another.

¹⁶ This I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

¹⁷ For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

¹⁸ But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, rivalry, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

²¹ envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. About these things I tell you again, as I have also told you in times past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

²³ meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

²⁴ And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts.

²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

²⁶ Let us not be desirous of vainglory, provoking one another and envying one another.