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Runners cross a dusty inland track past an obstacle while a bowl of leavened dough rests nearby.
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Galatians 5:7-12

A disrupted race

Freedom, Love, and the Fruit of the Spirit · Galatians 5

Story guide: Paul compares their interrupted course to a race and warns that a little leaven affects the whole dough. The image does not depict a literal incident.

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7You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

8This persuasion is not from the one who calls you.

9A little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough.

10I am confident in the Lord about you, that you will think nothing else; but the one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

11But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? Then the offense of the cross has been removed.

12I wish those who are upsetting you would even mutilate themselves.

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