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The Book of Galatians, Chapter 5, Verse 12

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I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
King James Version
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
American Standard Version
For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
New English Translation
Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.
World English Bible
I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
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For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
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[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
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For the flesh lusteth 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.
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But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
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Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.