005:011 As for me, brethren, if I am still a preacher of circumcision, how is it that I am still suffering persecution? In that case the Cross has ceased to be a stumbling-block!
005:012 Would to God that those who are unsettling your faith would even mutilate themselves.
005:013 You however, brethren, were called to freedom. Only do not turn
your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures;
but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love.
005:014 For the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept
the single precept, which says, "You are to love your fellow
man equally with yourself."
005:015 But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.
005:016 This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures.
005:017 For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.
005:018 But if the Spirit is leading you, you are not subject to Law.
005:019 Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures.
Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;
005:020 enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, intrigues,
dissensions, factions, envyings;