FREEDOM

Gal 5:1-6

1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (NIV)

2 I am emphatic about this. The moment any one of you submits to circumcision or any other rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ's hard-won gift of freedom is squandered. (The Message)

3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. (KJV)

4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. (NKJV)

5 But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive everything promised to us who are right with God through faith. (NLT)

6 For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love. (The Message)