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Galatians 5:13-23 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

13. For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.

14. For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

15. But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not consumed by one another!

16. So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

17. For the flesh desires against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And since these are against one another, you may not do whatever you want.

18. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence,

20. the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions,

21. envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

22. But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,

23. meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.

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