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# Galatians 5

Galatians 5 is chapter 5 of 6 in the Letter to the Galatians. Here are all 26 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He exhorts them to stand to their Christian liberty. Of the fruits of the flesh and of the spirit.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Galatians 5 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Stand firm, and do not be willing to be again held by the yoke of servitude.
2. Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you have been circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
3. For I again testify, about every man circumcising himself, that he is obligated to act according to the entire law.
4. You are being emptied of Christ, you who are being justified by the law. You have fallen from grace.
5. For in spirit, by faith, we await the hope of justice.
6. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything, but only faith which works through charity.
7. You have run well. So what has impeded you, that you would not obey the truth?
8. This kind of influence is not from him who is calling you.
9. A little leaven corrupts the whole mass.
10. I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will accept nothing of the kind. However, he who disturbs you shall bear the judgment, whomever he may be.
11. And as for me, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still suffering persecution? For then the scandal of the Cross would be made empty.
12. And I wish that those who disturb you would be torn away.
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.
24. For those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires.
25. If we live by the Spirit, we should also walk by the Spirit.
26. Let us not become desirous of empty glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

## Galatians 5 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

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. 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.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1454: The Acts of the Penitent ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1741: Human Freedom in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 578: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 162: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1814: The Theological Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2515: The Ninth Commandment ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2744: Perservering in Love ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2819: "Thy Kingdom Come" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1470: The Effects of This Sacrament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1852: The Different Kinds of Sins ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2113: "You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 736: The Spirit and the Church In the Last Days ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1108: The Holy Spirit and the Church in the Liturgy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1695: Life in Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2345: The Vocation to Chastity ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2543: The Desires of the Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 782: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2848: "And Lead Us not into Temptation" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2516: The Ninth Commandment ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2842: "And Forgive Us Our Trespasses, as We Forgive Those Who Trespass AGAINST US" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” — St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, III.1, 1609 (On this theme: verse 22)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Jul 2, 2028 (computed): Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, Galatians 5:1, 13-18
- Mon, Oct 16, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31—5:1
- Tue, Oct 17, 2028 (computed): St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr — First Reading, Galatians 5:1-6

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).