Galatians 5:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

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  • Rom 8:14 : 14 And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
  • Rom 6:14-15 : 14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
  • Rom 8:12 : 12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:
  • Gal 4:5-6 : 5 That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.
  • Gal 5:25 : 25 If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.
  • 1 Tim 1:9 : 9 With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.
  • 1 John 2:20-27 : 20 And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge. 21 I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true. 22 Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son. 23 He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father. 24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son. 25 And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life. 26 I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way. 27 As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.
  • Ps 25:4-5 : 4 Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways. 5 Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.
  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way. 9 He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.
  • Ps 143:8-9 : 8 Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you. 9 O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you. 10 Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.
  • Prov 8:20 : 20 I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:
  • Isa 48:16-18 : 16 Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit. 17 The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go. 18 If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
  • Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
  • John 16:13 : 13 However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.

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    13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

    14 For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

    15 But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

    16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

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    14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

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    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

    5 For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

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

    7 Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

    8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

    9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

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

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    1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

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    12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

    14 And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

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    22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

    23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

    24 And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

    25 If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.

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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

  • Gal 5:4-5
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    4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

    5 For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

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    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • Gal 5:19
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    19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

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    18 And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

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    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

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    21 Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

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    12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

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    2 Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

    3 Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?

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    5 He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

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    5 That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

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    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • Gal 2:16
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    16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

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    14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

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    2 Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

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    13 Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

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    27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

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    18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.