Galatians 5:16-26, Revised from "The Practice of the Way"

 

      Yet I say, operate by the Pneuma and you will not bring the desire of the soft tissues of the body¹ to completion at all. Because the soft tissues of the body desire against the Pneuma, and the Pneuma against the soft tissues of the body, because these things lie opposed to one another so that you would do these things you wouldn’t wish.² And if you are guided by the Pneuma, you aren’t subject to the Torah. But the things worked by the soft tissues of the body are visible such as adultery, whoring, dirtiness, violent sensuality, idolatry, drug use, hostilities, discord, jealousy, rages, selfish actions, seditions, factions, envies, homicides, intoxications, hard partyings³, and things similar to these, what I am telling you beforehand just like I told you previously that those performing such things as these will not inherit the Divine Kingdom.

      But the fruit⁴ of the Pneuma is love, joy, peace, having a long temper, kindness, goodness, trust, courtesy, internal control; there isn’t a Torah against such things as these. And these people belonging to the Anointed Yeshua crucified the soft tissues of the body together with its sufferings and its desires. If we are living by the Pneuma, we should also march in step with the Pneuma. We shouldn’t become conceited, provoking one another, having malice because of envying one another.

1Speaking of the malfunctioning neurology: the hypothalamus, amygdala, and limbic system in general which treats everything like a survival issue, physical or psychological, even when it isn’t.

2See Romans 7:18-23

3It can be demonstrated that everything on this list can be seen as being initiated by the survival responses of fear, aggression, feeding, or the sexual drive, all of which are governed by the hypothalamus, and in general are responses that cling to and hoard what is seen by the brain as necessary for survival, and push away and attempt to destroy what is seen by the brain as a threat to survival.

4Note that this word is singular. It is describing a single fruit, not many; that is it is describing the life of Jesus Anointed being expressed through the person and refers back to Jesus’ statements about knowing a tree by it’s fruit.