Galatians 5:16

American Standard Version (1901)

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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  • Gal 5:24-25 : 24 And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof. 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these] : fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, 21 envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Col 3:5-9 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: 7 wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things; 8 but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth: 9 lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings, 10 and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  • Rom 13:13-14 : 13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof] .
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
  • 1 Pet 4:1-4 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: 4 wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :
  • Rom 8:4-5 : 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:12-14 : 12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1 Pet 4:6 : 6 For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
  • Jude 1:19-21 : 19 These are they who make separations, sensual, having not the Spirit. 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
  • Col 2:11 : 11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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  • Gal 5:17-19
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    17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

    18But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

    19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these] : fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

  • Gal 5:21-26
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    21envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

    22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

    23meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

    24And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

    25If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

    26Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

  • Rom 8:4-6
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    4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

    5For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

    6For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

  • Rom 13:13-14
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    13Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

    14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof] .

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

    13for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • Gal 5:13-15
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    13For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

    14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

    15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

  • Rom 8:8-10
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    8and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

    9But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

  • Eph 5:17-18
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    17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

    18And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

  • Rom 6:12
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    12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

  • Gal 6:8
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    8For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • 2 Cor 10:3
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    3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  • Eph 5:9
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    9(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

  • Rom 7:5
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are they who make separations, sensual, having not the Spirit.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • Jas 4:5
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    5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

  • Gal 3:3
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    3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

  • Rom 7:17-18
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    17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

    18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good [is] not.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

  • Eph 5:15
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    15Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

  • Col 3:5
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    5Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

  • Gal 6:2
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    2Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

  • Eph 4:22
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    22that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

  • Rom 7:20
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    20But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.