Pastor Ron Roddey
"How To Live The Christian Life"
Cornerstone Baptist Church
Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
From
Galatians Chapters 5 & 6
5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall
profit you nothing.
5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a
debtor to do the whole law.
5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are
justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by
faith.
5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the
truth?
5:8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
5:10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none
otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment,
whosoever he be.
5:11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer
persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not
liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself.
5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not
consumed one of another.
5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the
lust of the flesh.
5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye
cannot do the things that ye would.
5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the
which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts.
5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,
envying one another.
6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a
fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of
meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he
deceiveth himself.
6:4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have
rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.
6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that
teacheth in all good things.
6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.
6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life
everlasting.
6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall
reap, if we faint not.
6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men,
especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
6:11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own
hand.
6:12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain
you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the
cross of Christ.
6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but
desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the
world.
6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor
uncircumcision, but a new creature.
6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and
mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
6:17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the
marks of the Lord Jesus.
6:18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
Amen.
