Galatians 5:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Rom 8:14 : 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
  • Rom 6:14-15 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
  • Rom 8:12 : 12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
  • Gal 4:5-6 : 5 To redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father.'
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
  • Gal 5:25 : 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
  • 1 Tim 1:9 : 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
  • 1 John 2:20-27 : 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he has promised us—eternal life. 26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you. 27 But the anointing which you have received from him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in him.
  • Ps 25:4-5 : 4 Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths. 5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day.
  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He will teach sinners in the way. 9 The meek He will guide in judgment, and the meek He will teach His way.
  • Ps 143:8-9 : 8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, for I trust in You: cause me to know the way I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You. 9 Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee to You to hide me. 10 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God: Your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
  • Prov 8:20 : 20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
  • Isa 48:16-18 : 16 Come near to me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I am there: and now the Lord GOD and his Spirit have sent me. 17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go. 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
  • Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.
  • John 16:13 : 13 However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth: for he will not speak on his own; but whatever he hears, he will speak: and he will show you things to come.

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    13For, brethren, you have been called to freedom; only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

    14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

    15But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another.

    16I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you cannot do the things that you wish.

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.

    15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not.

  • Rom 8:4-10
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    4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

    5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

    6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

    7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

    8So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

    9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

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

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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

  • Rom 8:12-14
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    12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

    13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

  • Gal 5:22-25
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    22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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

    24And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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

  • Rom 7:5-7
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to death.

    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'

  • Gal 5:4-5
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    4Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

    5For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

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

  • 19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

  • 18And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

  • 1Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • 15Because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • 25But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

  • 14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law to themselves:

  • 21Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

  • 20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

  • 12And the law is not of faith, but 'The man who does them shall live in them.'

  • Gal 3:2-3
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    2This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

    3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?

  • 9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

  • 5He who ministers to you the Spirit and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

  • 5To redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

  • 19For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.

  • 16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

  • 14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

  • 2Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

  • 13For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not charged when there is no law.

  • 27And shall not the uncircumcised which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law?

  • 18And having been set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.