1 Staan dan vas in die vryheid waarmee Christus ons vrygemaak het, en laat julle nie weer onder die juk van diensbaarheid bring nie.
2 Kyk, ek, Paulus, sê vir julle dat as julle jul laat besny, Christus vir julle tot geen nut sal wees nie.
3 En ek betuig dit weer aan elke mens wat hom laat besny, dat hy onder verpligting is om die hele wet te onderhou.
4 Julle wat geregverdig wil wees deur die wet, is losgemaak van Christus; julle het van die genade verval.
5 Want ons verwag deur die Gees uit die geloof die geregtigheid waarop ons hoop.
6 Want in Christus Jesus het n•g die besnydenis n•g die onbesnedenheid enige krag, maar die geloof wat deur die liefde werk.
7 Julle het goed geloop: wie het julle verhinder om die waarheid gehoorsaam te wees?
8 Hierdie oortuiging kom nie van Hom wat julle roep nie.
9 'n Bietjie suurdeeg maak die hele deeg suur.
10 Ek vertrou van julle in die Here dat julle nie anders sal dink nie; maar die een wat julle in die war bring, sal die oordeel dra, wie dit ook mag wees.
11 Maar ek, broeders, as ek nog die besnydenis verkondig, waarom word ek nog vervolg? Dan is die struikelblok van die kruis vernietig!
12 Ag, as die wat julle opstandig maak, hulleself tog maar ook wou vermink!
13 Want julle is tot vryheid geroep, broeders; gebruik net nie julle vryheid as 'n aanleiding vir die vlees nie, maar dien mekaar deur die liefde.
14 Want die hele wet word vervul in een woord, naamlik: Jy moet jou naaste liefhê soos jouself.
15 Maar as julle mekaar byt en opeet, pas op dat julle nie die een deur die ander verteer word nie.
16 Maar ek sê: Wandel deur die Gees, dan sal julle nooit die begeerlikheid van die vlees volbring nie;
17 want die vlees begeer teen die Gees, en die Gees teen die vlees; en hulle staan teenoor mekaar, sodat julle nie kan doen wat julle wil nie.
18 Maar as julle deur die Gees gelei word, dan is julle nie onder die wet nie.
19 En die werke van die vlees is openbaar, naamlik owerspel, hoerery, onreinheid, ongebondenheid;
20 afgodery, towery, vyandskap, twis, jaloersheid, toornigheid, naywer, tweedrag, partyskap;
21 afguns, moord, dronkenskap, brassery en dergelike dinge, waarvan ek julle vooraf sê, soos ek al vroeër gesê het, dat die wat sulke dinge doen, die koninkryk van God nie sal beërwe nie.
22 Maar die vrug van die Gees is liefde, blydskap, vrede, lankmoedigheid, vriendelikheid, goedheid, getrouheid, sagmoedigheid, selfbeheersing.
23 Teen sulke dinge is die wet nie.
24 Maar die wat aan Christus behoort, het die vlees met sy hartstogte en begeerlikhede gekruisig.
25 As ons deur die Gees lewe, laat ons ook deur die Gees wandel.
26 Laat ons nie word soekers van ydele eer wat mekaar uittart en mekaar beny nie.
1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
2 See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.
3 Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.
4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.
5 For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
7 You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?
8 This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.
9 A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.
10 I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.
11 But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.
12 My desire is that they who give you trouble might even be cut off themselves.
13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
14 For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
15 But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.
16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.
17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.
18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,
20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,
21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.
24 And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.
25 If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.
26 Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.