Gal 5:13-26 | ESV | STEP | For you were called to freedom , brothers . Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh , but through love serve one another .

Galatians 5:13-26

13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. ^aOnly do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love ^bserve one another. 14 For ^cthe whole law is fulfilled in one word: ^d“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you ^ebite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Keep in Step with the Spirit

16 But I say, ^fwalk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify ^gthe desires of the flesh. 17 For ^hthe desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, ⁱto keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are ^jled by the Spirit, ^kyou are not under the law. 19 Now ^lthe works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, ^mdivisions, 21 envy, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add murder} drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that ^othose who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But ^pthe fruit of the Spirit is ^qlove, joy, peace, patience, ^rkindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 ^sgentleness, ^tself-control; ^uagainst such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus ^vhave crucified the flesh with its ^wpassions and desires.

25 If we live by the Spirit, ^xlet us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 ^yLet us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.