HOLY BIBLE: Galatians 5 (original) (raw)

1 Τῇ ἐλευθερίᾳ ἡμᾶς Χριστὸς ἠλευθέρωσεν. στήκετε οὖν καὶ μὴ πάλιν ζυγῷ δουλείας ἐνέχεσθε. 2 Ἴδε ἐγὼ Παῦλος λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι ἐὰν περιτέμνησθε, Χριστὸς ὑμᾶς οὐδὲν ὠφελήσει. 3 μαρτύρομαι δὲ πάλιν παντὶ ἀνθρώπῳ περιτεμνομένῳ ὅτι ὀφειλέτης ἐστὶν ὅλον τὸν νόμον ποιῆσαι. 4 κατηργήθητε ἀπὸ Χριστοῦ οἵτινες ἐν νόμῳ δικαιοῦσθε, τῆς χάριτος ἐξεπέσατε. 5 ἡμεῖς γὰρ πνεύματι ἐκ πίστεως ἐλπίδα δικαιοσύνης ἀπεκδεχόμεθα. 6 ἐν γὰρ Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ οὔτε περιτομή τι ἰσχύει οὔτε ἀκροβυστία, ἀλλὰ πίστις δι' ἀγάπης ἐνεργουμένη. 7 Ἐτρέχετε καλῶς: τίς ὑμᾶς ἐνέκοψεν [τῇ] ἀληθείᾳ μὴ πείθεσθαι; 8 ἡ πεισμονὴ οὐκ ἐκ τοῦ καλοῦντος ὑμᾶς. 9 μικρὰ ζύμη ὅλον τὸ φύραμα ζυμοῖ. 10 ἐγὼ πέποιθα εἰς ὑμᾶς ἐν κυρίῳ ὅτι οὐδὲν ἄλλο φρονήσετε: ὁ δὲ ταράσσων ὑμᾶς βαστάσει τὸ κρίμα, ὅστις ἐὰν ᾖ. 11 ἐγὼ δέ, ἀδελφοί, εἰ περιτομὴν ἔτι κηρύσσω, τί ἔτι διώκομαι; ἄρα κατήργηται τὸ σκάνδαλον τοῦ σταυροῦ. 12 ὄφελον καὶ ἀποκόψονται οἱ ἀναστατοῦντες ὑμᾶς.

1 Stand fast, and do not let yourselves be caught again in the yoke of slavery. 2 The word of Paul is your warrant for this; if you are for being circumcised, Christ is of no value to you at all. 3 Once again I would warn anyone who is accepting circumcision that he thereby engages himself to keep all the precepts of the law. 4 You who look to the law for your justification have cancelled your bond with Christ, you have forfeited grace. 5 All our hope of justification lies in the spirit; it rests on our faith; 6 once we are in Christ, circumcision means nothing, and the want of it means nothing; the faith that finds its expression in love is all that matters. 7 Till now, you had been shaping your course well; who is it that has come between you and your loyalty to the truth? 8 Not he who called you; this pressure comes from elsewhere.[1] 9 It takes but a little leaven to leaven the whole batch. 10 I am fully confident in the Lord that you will be of the same mind with me, leaving the disturbers of your peace, be they who they may, to answer for it. 11 As for myself, brethren, if it is true that I preach the need of circumcision, why am I persecuted? If I did, the preaching of the cross would no longer give offence.[2] 12 I would rather they should lose their own manhood, these authors of your unrest.

1 State, et nolite iterum jugo servitutis contineri. 2 Ecce ego Paulus dico vobis: quoniam si circumcidamini, Christus vobis nihil proderit. 3 Testificor autem rursus omni homini circumcidenti se, quoniam debitor est universæ legis faciendæ. 4 Evacuati estis a Christo, qui in lege justificamini: a gratia excidistis. 5 Nos enim spiritu ex fide, spem justitiæ exspectamus. 6 Nam in Christo Jesu neque circumcisio aliquid valet, neque præputium: sed fides, quæ per caritatem operatur. 7 Currebatis bene: quis vos impedivit veritati non obedire? 8 persuasio hæc non est ex eo, qui vocat vos. 9 Modicum fermentum totam massam corrumpit. 10 Ego confido in vobis in Domino, quod nihil aliud sapietis: qui autem conturbat vos, portabit judicium, quicumque est ille. 11 Ego autem, fratres, si circumcisionem adhuc prædico: quid adhuc persecutionem patior? ergo evacuatum est scandalum crucis. 12 Utinam et abscindantur qui vos conturbant.

13 Ὑμεῖς γὰρ ἐπ' ἐλευθερίᾳ ἐκλήθητε, ἀδελφοί: μόνον μὴ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν εἰς ἀφορμὴν τῇ σαρκί, ἀλλὰ διὰ τῆς ἀγάπης δουλεύετε ἀλλήλοις. 14 ὁ γὰρ πᾶς νόμος ἐν ἑνὶ λόγῳ πεπλήρωται, ἐν τῷ ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν. 15 εἰ δὲ ἀλλήλους δάκνετε καὶ κατεσθίετε, βλέπετε μὴ ὑπ' ἀλλήλων ἀναλωθῆτε. 16 Λέγω δέ, πνεύματι περιπατεῖτε καὶ ἐπιθυμίαν σαρκὸς οὐ μὴ τελέσητε. 17 ἡ γὰρ σὰρξ ἐπιθυμεῖ κατὰ τοῦ πνεύματος, τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα κατὰ τῆς σαρκός: ταῦτα γὰρ ἀλλήλοις ἀντίκειται, ἵνα μὴ ἃ ἐὰν θέλητε ταῦτα ποιῆτε. 18 εἰ δὲ πνεύματι ἄγεσθε, οὐκ ἐστὲ ὑπὸ νόμον. 19 φανερὰ δέ ἐστιν τὰ ἔργα τῆς σαρκός, ἅτινά ἐστιν πορνεία, ἀκαθαρσία, ἀσέλγεια, 20 εἰδωλολατρία, φαρμακεία, ἔχθραι, ἔρις, ζῆλος, θυμοί, ἐριθείαι, διχοστασίαι, αἱρέσεις, 21 φθόνοι, μέθαι, κῶμοι, καὶ τὰ ὅμοια τούτοις, ἃ προλέγω ὑμῖν καθὼς προεῖπον ὅτι οἱ τὰ τοιαῦτα πράσσοντες βασιλείαν θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν. 22 ὁ δὲ καρπὸς τοῦ πνεύματός ἐστιν ἀγάπη, χαρά, εἰρήνη, μακροθυμία, χρηστότης, ἀγαθωσύνη, πίστις, 23 πραΰτης, ἐγκράτεια: κατὰ τῶν τοιούτων οὐκ ἔστιν νόμος. 24 οἱ δὲ τοῦ Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ τὴν σάρκα ἐσταύρωσαν σὺν τοῖς παθήμασιν καὶ ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις. 25 εἰ ζῶμεν πνεύματι, πνεύματι καὶ στοιχῶμεν. 26 μὴ γινώμεθα κενόδοξοι, ἀλλήλους προκαλούμενοι, ἀλλήλοις φθονοῦντες.

13 Yes, brethren, freedom claimed you when you were called. Only, do not let this freedom give a foothold to corrupt nature; you must be servants still, serving one another in a spirit of charity. 14 After all, the whole of the law is summed up in one phrase, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;[3] 15 if you are always backbiting and worrying each other, it is to be feared you will wear each other out in the end. 16 Let me say this; learn to live and move in the spirit; then there is no danger of your giving way to the impulses of corrupt nature. 17 The impulses of nature and the impulses of the spirit are at war with one another; either is clean contrary to the other, and that is why you cannot do all that your will approves. 18 It is by letting the spirit lead you that you free yourselves from the yoke of the law. 19 It is easy to see what effects proceed from corrupt nature; they are such things as adultery, impurity, incontinence, luxury, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, feuds, quarrels, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions, 21 spite, murder, drunkenness, and debauchery. I warn you, as I have warned you before, that those who live in such a way will not inherit God’s kingdom. 22 Whereas the spirit yields a harvest of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, forbearance, 23 gentleness, faith, courtesy, temperateness, purity.[4] No law can touch lives such as these; 24 those who belong to Christ have crucified nature, with all its passions, all its impulses. 25 Since we live by the spirit, let the spirit be our rule of life; 26 we must not indulge vain ambitions, envying one another and provoking one another to envy.

13 Vos enim in libertatem vocati estis, fratres: tantum ne libertatem in occasionem detis carnis, sed per caritatem Spiritus servite invicem. 14 Omnis enim lex in uno sermone impletur: Diliges proximum tuum sicut teipsum. 15 Quod si invicem mordetis, et comeditis: videte ne ab invicem consumamini. 16 Dico autem: Spiritu ambulate, et desideria carnis non perficietis. 17 Caro enim concupiscit adversus spiritum, spiritus autem adversus carnem: hæc enim sibi invicem adversantur, ut non quæcumque vultis, illa faciatis. 18 Quod si Spiritu ducimini, non estis sub lege. 19 Manifesta sunt autem opera carnis, quæ sunt fornicatio, immunditia, impudicitia, luxuria, 20 idolorum servitus, veneficia, inimicitiæ, contentiones, æmulationes, iræ, rixæ, dissensiones, sectæ, 21 invidiæ, homicidia, ebrietates, comessationes, et his similia, quæ prædico vobis, sicut prædixi: quoniam qui talia agunt, regnum Dei non consequentur. 22 Fructus autem Spiritus est caritas, gaudium, pax, patientia, benignitas, bonitas, longanimitas, 23 mansuetudo, fides, modestia, continentia, castitas. Adversus hujusmodi non est lex. 24 Qui autem sunt Christi, carnem suam crucifixerunt cum vitiis et concupiscentiis. 25 Si Spiritu vivimus, Spiritu et ambulemus. 26 Non efficiamur inanis gloriæ cupidi, invicem provocantes, invicem invidentes.

[1] Here, as in 1.6, ‘he who called you’ refers to Almighty God, not to St Paul himself.

[2] It would appear from this verse that the authors of confusion in the Galatian church represented St Paul himself as recommending circumcision to his Gentile converts. It is difficult to understand how they can have found any colour for such statements, if this letter was written after the deliberations mentioned in Ac. 15; cf. Ac. 16.4.

[3] Lev. 19.18.

[4] The Greek only mentions nine of the Twelve Fruits; viz., the first six, together with gentleness, faith, and temperateness. It is possible that the Latin version has accidentally included, in some cases, two renderings of the same Greek word.

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