Galatians 5:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to another, so that ye can not doe the same things that ye would.

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  • Rom 8:5-8 : 5 For they that are after the flesh, sauour the things of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the wisedome of the flesh is death: but the wisedome of the Spirit is life and peace, 7 Because the wisedome of the flesh is enimitie against God: for it is not subiect to the Lawe of God, neither in deede can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh, can not please God.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if ye liue after the flesh, ye shall die: but if yee mortifie the deedes of the body by the Spirit, ye shall liue.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: and that that is borne of the Spirit, is spirit.
  • Rom 7:7-8 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust. 8 But sinne tooke an occasion by ye commandement, and wrought in me all maner of concupiscence: for without the Lawe sinne is dead.
  • Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie? 6 But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 (7:22) Surely there is no man iust in the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
  • Ps 119:20 : 20 Mine heart breaketh for the desire to thy iudgements always.
  • Ps 19:12-13 : 12 Who can vnderstand his faultes? clense me from secret fautes. 13 Keepe thy seruant also from presumptuous sinnes: let them not reigne ouer me: so shall I be vpright, & made cleane fro much wickednes.
  • Ps 51:10-12 : 10 Create in mee a cleane heart, O God, and renue a right spirit within me. 11 Cast mee not away from thy presence, and take not thine holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the ioy of thy saluation, and stablish me with thy free Spirit.
  • Ps 65:3 : 3 Wicked deedes haue preuailed against me: but thou wilt be mercifull vnto our transgressions.
  • Ps 119:4-6 : 4 Thou hast commaunded to keepe thy precepts diligently. 5 Oh that my waies were directed to keepe thy statutes! 6 Then should I not be confounded, when I haue respect vnto all thy commandements.
  • Ps 51:1-5 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid, when the Prophet Nathan came vnto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Haue mercie vpon me, O God, according to thy louing kindnes: according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie, and clense me from my sinne. 3 For I know mine iniquities, and my sinne is euer before me. 4 Against thee, against thee onely haue I sinned, and done euill in thy sight, that thou mayest be iust when thou speakest, and pure when thou iudgest. 5 Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.
  • Matt 12:30 : 30 He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.
  • Matt 16:17 : 17 And Iesus answered, and saide to him, Blessed art thou, Simon, the sonne of Ionas: for flesh and blood hath not reueiled it vnto thee, but my Father which is in heauen.
  • Matt 16:23 : 23 Then he turned backe, and said vnto Peter, Get thee behinde me, Satan: thou art an offence vnto me, because thou vnderstandest not the thinges that are of God, but the thinges that are of men.
  • Matt 26:41 : 41 Watch, and praie, that yee enter not into tentation: the spirit in deede is readie, but the flesh is weake.
  • Ps 119:24-25 : 24 Also thy testimonies are my delite, and my counsellers. 25 Daleth. My soule cleaueth to the dust: quicken me according to thy worde.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I will runne the way of thy commaundements, when thou shalt enlarge mine heart.
  • Ps 119:35 : 35 Direct mee in the path of thy commandements: for therein is my delite.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 Beholde, I desire thy commaundementes: quicken me in thy righteousnesse,
  • Ps 119:133 : 133 Direct my steppes in thy worde, and let none iniquitie haue dominion ouer me.
  • Ps 119:159 : 159 Consider, O Lorde, how I loue thy preceptes: quicken mee according to thy louing kindenesse.
  • Ps 119:176 : 176 I haue gone astraye like a lost sheepe: seeke thy seruant, for I doe not forget thy commaundements.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If thou, O Lord, straightly markest iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
  • Luke 22:46 : 46 And he said vnto them, Why sleepe ye? rise and pray, least ye enter into tentation.
  • Luke 22:54-61 : 54 Then tooke they him, and led him, and brought him to the hie Priestes house. And Peter followed afarre off. 55 And when they had kindled a fire in the middes of the hall, and were set downe together, Peter also sate downe among them. 56 And a certaine mayde behelde him as hee sate by the fire, and hauing well looked on him, said, This man was also with him. 57 But he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not. 58 And after a little while, another man sawe him, and saide, Thou art also of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not. 59 And about the space of an houre after, a certaine other affirmed, saying. Verely euen this man was with him: for he is also a Galilean. 60 And Peter saide, Man, I knowe not what thou sayest; immediatly while hee yet spake, the cocke crewe. 61 Then the Lorde turned backe, and looked vpon Peter: and Peter remembred the worde of the Lord, how he had said vnto him, Before the cocke crowe, thou shalt denie me thrise.
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the Lawe then against the promises of God? God forbid: For if there had bene a Lawe giuen which coulde haue giuen life, surely righteousnes should haue bene by the Lawe.
  • Phil 3:12-16 : 12 Not as though I had alreadie attained to it, either were alreadie perfect: but I folow, if that I may comprehend that for whose sake also I am comprehended of Christ Iesus. 13 Brethren, I count not my selfe, that I haue attained to it, but one thing I doe: I forget that which is behinde, and endeuour my selfe vnto that which is before, 14 And followe hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus. 15 Let vs therefore as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if yee be otherwise minded, God shall reueile euen the same vnto you. 16 Neuerthelesse, in that whereunto wee are come, let vs proceede by one rule, that wee may minde one thing.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceiue our selues, and trueth is not in vs. 9 If we acknowledge our sinnes, he is faithfull and iust, to forgiue vs our sinnes, & to clense vs from all vnrighteousnes. 10 If we say we haue not sinned, wee make him a liar, and his word is not in vs.
  • Rom 7:10-25 : 10 But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death. 11 For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me. 12 Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good. 13 Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God forbid: but sinne, that it might appeare sinne, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sinne might be out of measure sinfull by the commandement. 14 For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne. 15 For I alow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I. 16 If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good. 17 Nowe then, it is no more I, that doe it, but sinne that dwelleth in me. 18 For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to wil is preset with me: but I find no meanes to perform that which is good. 19 For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I. 20 Nowe if I do that I would not, it is no more I that doe it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me. 21 I finde then that when I would doe good, I am thus yoked, that euill is present with me. 22 For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man: 23 But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the Lawe of my minde, and leading me captiue vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am, who shall deliuer me from the body of this death! 25 I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lorde. Then I my selfe in my minde serue the Lawe of God, but in my flesh the lawe of sinne.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I sayd, Wo is me: for I am vndone, because I am a man of polluted lips, & I dwell in the middes of a people of polluted lips: for mine eyes haue seene the King and Lord of hostes.
  • Matt 5:6 : 6 Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousnes: for they shalbe filled.
  • Luke 22:33 : 33 And he said vnto him, Lord, I am ready to goe with thee into prison, and to death.

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    2 For the Lawe of the Spirite of life, which is in Christ Iesus, hath freed mee from the lawe of sinne and of death.

    3 For (that that was impossible to ye Lawe, in as much as it was weake, because of ye flesh) God sending his owne Sonne, in ye similitude of sinful flesh, & for sinne, condened sinne in the flesh,

    4 That that righteousnes of the Law might be fulfilled in vs, which walke not after ye flesh, but after the Spirit.

    5 For they that are after the flesh, sauour the things of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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

    7 Because the wisedome of the flesh is enimitie against God: for it is not subiect to the Lawe of God, neither in deede can be.

    8 So then they that are in the flesh, can not please God.

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    18 And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not vnder the Lawe.

    19 Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are adulterie, fornication, vncleannes, wantonnes,

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    12 Therefore brethren, wee are detters not to the flesh, to liue after the flesh:

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    14 For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.

    15 For I alow not that which I do: for what I would, that do I not: but what I hate, that do I.

    16 If I doe then that which I woulde not, I consent to the Lawe, that it is good.

    17 Nowe then, it is no more I, that doe it, but sinne that dwelleth in me.

    18 For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to wil is preset with me: but I find no meanes to perform that which is good.

    19 For I doe not the good thing, which I would, but the euil, which I would not, that do I.

    20 Nowe if I do that I would not, it is no more I that doe it, but the sinne that dwelleth in me.

    21 I finde then that when I would doe good, I am thus yoked, that euill is present with me.

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    23 But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the Lawe of my minde, and leading me captiue vnto the lawe of sinne, which is in my members.

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    5 Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie?

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    13 For brethren, ye haue bene called vnto libertie: onely vse not your libertie as an occasion vnto the flesh, but by loue serue one another.

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    3 Neuerthelesse, though wee walke in the flesh, yet we doe not warre after the flesh.

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    2 Ye lust, and haue not: ye enuie, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtaine: ye fight and warre, and get nothing, because ye aske not.

    3 Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.

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    15 Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth foorth sinne, and sinne when it is finished, bringeth foorth death.

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    41 Watch, and praie, that yee enter not into tentation: the spirit in deede is readie, but the flesh is weake.

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    9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in al goodnes, and righteousnes, and trueth)

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    5 And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:

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    6 That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: and that that is borne of the Spirit, is spirit.

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    19 These are they that separate them selues from other, naturall, hauing not the Spirit.

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