Galatians 5:19-21 has our beloved apostle Paul listing some works of the flesh, and then insisting to us that "those committing such things shall not be enjoying the allotment of the kingdom of God."

Now, those who, in their religious past, were commanded to follow the law of Moses or not be saved, being DELIVERED of that burden, are still so traumatized by the burden that, whenever they see Paul talking about earning wages or losing wages, or gaining an allotment or losing an allotment, or ruling and reigning with Christ versus not doing that—in fact, whenever they witness Paul, in any context, discouraging anyone from sinning, or encouraging this or that person to run a race and win a prize, they instinctively (knee-jerkingly) import these four foreign elements into the passage:

1) salvation 
2) self-righteousness
3) law-keeping
4) free will

And yet, is salvation anywhere mentioned in Galatians 5? Nope. It's about enjoying an allotment—something quite above and beyond salvation.

Is self-righteous lurking in the bushes? No. Self-righteousness must be artificially imported into the text by individuals who are, I dare say, projecting their own beliefs into the matter. In other words, if THEY were to be found avoiding these sins, THEY would feel self-righteous about it. The spiritually attuned person, however, could only attribute good behavior to the fruits of the spirit.

Does Galatians 5 even suggest law-keeping? No—not to the honest, non-PTSD reader. If law is here, where is the reference? Where is Moses? Show us Sinai on the horizon. One must be sporting their most expensive pair of law-tinted glasses to see law in this passage.

Finally, how could anyone import free will into Galatians 5 unless they themselves think that only a will free of divine influence could avoid sin? This would be the most self-incrimination importation, as only a free-willer could miss (ignore? not know about? be completely ignorant of?) the necessity of God's enabling spirit in the "avoid-these-sins" department.