For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not
use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love
serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this:
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be
consumed by one another! I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the
lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do
not do the things that you wish.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts
of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which
I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that
those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of
God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its
passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying
one another.
Galatians 5:13-26
