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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Galatians 5 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/galatians/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/galatians/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Galatians 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../galatians/4.htm" title="Galatians 4">◄</a> Galatians 5 <a href="../galatians/6.htm" title="Galatians 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/galatians/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Freedom in Christ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I’ll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole law of Moses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has promised to us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You were running the race so well. Who has held you back from following the truth? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>It certainly isn’t God, for he is the one who called you to freedom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>This false teaching is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am trusting the Lord to keep you from believing false teachings. God will judge that person, whoever he is, who has been confusing you.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Dear brothers and sisters,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> if I were still preaching that you must be circumcised—as some say I do—why am I still being persecuted? If I were no longer preaching salvation through the cross of Christ, no one would be offended. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I just wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.</p><p class="hdg">Living by the Spirit’s Power</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Let us not become conceited, or provoke one another, or be jealous of one another.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:11 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Brothers;</span><span class="ft"> similarly in 5:13.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">castrate themselves,</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">cut themselves off from you;</span><span class="ft"> Greek reads </span><span class="it">cut themselves off.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:14 </span><span class="ft">Lev 19:18.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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