7. Ye did run well; who hindered you that ye should not trust in the truth?
8. This persuasion does not come of him that called you.
9. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
10. I have confidence in you through the Lord that ye will not be otherwise minded, but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.
11. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offence of the cross {Gr. stauros – stake} ceased.
12. I even desire that those who trouble you would cut themselves off.
13. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only do not use liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by charity serve one another.
14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye are not consumed one of another.
16. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17. For the flesh lusts 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.
18. But if ye are led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.