New American Standard Bible 2020

Galatians 5:7-15

7You were 1running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8This persuasion did not come from 2Him who calls you. 9 3A little 4leaven leavens the whole lump of dough. 10 5I have confidence 6in you in the Lord, that you 7will adopt no other view; but the one who is 8disturbing you will bear the punishment, whoever he is. 11But as for me, brothers and sisters, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still 9persecuted? Then 10the stumbling block of the cross has been eliminated. 12I wish that 11those who are troubling you would even 12 13emasculate themselves.

13For you were called to 14freedom, brothers and sisters; 15only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but 16serve one another through love. 14For 17the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “18You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15But if you 19bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

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Notes

1. Galatians 5:7 Gal 2:2 ↩
2. Galatians 5:8 Rom 8:28; Gal 1:6 ↩
3. Galatians 5:9 1 Cor 5:6 ↩
4. Galatians 5:9 I.e., fermented dough ↩
5. Galatians 5:10 2 Cor 2:3 ↩
6. Galatians 5:10 Lit toward ↩
7. Galatians 5:10 Gal 5:7; Phil 3:15 ↩
8. Galatians 5:10 Gal 1:7; 5:12 ↩
9. Galatians 5:11 Gal 4:29; 6:12 ↩
10. Galatians 5:11 Rom 9:33; 1 Cor 1:23 ↩
11. Galatians 5:12 Gal 2:4; 5:10 ↩
12. Galatians 5:12 Or cut themselves off ↩
13. Galatians 5:12 Deut 23:1 ↩
14. Galatians 5:13 Gal 5:1 ↩
15. Galatians 5:13 1 Cor 8:9; 1 Pet 2:16 ↩
16. Galatians 5:13 1 Cor 9:19; Eph 5:21 ↩
17. Galatians 5:14 Matt 7:12; 22:40; Rom 13:8, 10; Gal 6:2 ↩
18. Galatians 5:14 Lev 19:18; Matt 19:19; John 13:34 ↩
19. Galatians 5:15 Gal 5:20; Phil 3:2 ↩

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