¹基督释放了我们，为了要使我们得自由。所以你们要站立得稳，不要再被奴役的轭控制。

¹In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free — stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

²基督徒的自由我保罗现在告诉你们，如果你们受割礼，基督对你们就毫无益处了。

²lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

³我再对所有受割礼的人郑重声明：他有责任遵行全部的律法。

³and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;

⁴你们这些靠律法称义的人，是和基督隔绝，从恩典中坠落了。

⁴ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

⁵我们靠着圣灵，凭着信，热切等候所盼望的义。

⁵for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

⁶因为在基督耶稣里，受割礼或不受割礼，都没有用处，唯有那借着爱表达出来的信，才有用处。

⁶for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

⁷你们向来跑得好，谁拦阻了你们，使你们不顺从真理呢？

⁷Ye were running well; who did hinder you — not to obey the truth?

⁸这种劝诱不是出于那召你们的。

⁸the obedience [is] not of him who is calling you!

⁹一点面酵能使全团面发起来。

⁹a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven;

¹⁰我在主里深信你们不会存别的意念；但那搅扰你们的，无论是谁，必定要受刑罚。

¹⁰I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

¹¹弟兄们，如果我仍旧传割礼，我为什么还受迫害呢？若是这样，十字架绊倒人的地方就没有了。

¹¹And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;

¹²我恨不得那些扰乱你们的人把自己阉割了！

¹²O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

¹³弟兄们，你们蒙召得了自由；只是不可把这自由当作放纵情欲的机会，总要凭着爱心互相服事。

¹³For ye — to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

¹⁴因为全部的律法，都在“爱人如己”这一句话里面成全了。

¹⁴for all the law in one word is fulfilled — in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;`

¹⁵你们要谨慎，如果相咬相吞，恐怕彼此都要毁灭了。

¹⁵and if one another ye do bite and devour, see — that ye may not by one another be consumed.

¹⁶肉体与圣灵为敌我是说，你们应当顺着圣灵行事，这样就一定不会去满足肉体的私欲了。

¹⁶And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

¹⁷因为肉体的私欲和圣灵敌对，圣灵也和肉体敌对；这两样互相敌对，使你们不能作自己愿意作的。

¹⁷for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will — these ye may not do;

¹⁸但你们若被圣灵引导，就不在律法以下了。

¹⁸and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

¹⁹肉体所行的都是显而易见的，就如淫乱、污秽、邪荡、

¹⁹And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

²⁰拜偶像、行邪术、仇恨、争竞、忌恨、忿怒、自私、分党、结派、

²⁰idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

²¹嫉妒、醉酒、荒宴，和类似的事。我从前早就告诉过你们，现在又事先告诉你们：行这些事的人，必定不能承受　神的国。

²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

²²圣灵的果子但圣灵的果子是仁爱、喜乐、平安、忍耐、恩慈、良善、信实、

²²And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

²³温柔、节制；这样的事，是没有律法禁止的。

²³meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

²⁴属基督耶稣的人，是已经把肉体和邪情私欲都钉在十字架上了。

²⁴and those who are Christ`s, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

²⁵如果我们靠圣灵活着，就应该顺着圣灵行事。

²⁵if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

²⁶我们不可贪图虚荣，彼此触怒，互相嫉妒。

²⁶let us not become vain-glorious — one another provoking, one another envying!