Second Reading: Galatians 5:1, 13-18

¹ For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
¹³ For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.
¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
¹⁵ But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another.
¹⁶ But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.
¹⁷ For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would.
¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law.