Galatians 5:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 18:10 : 10 There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,
  • 1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and presumption is like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the LORD’s orders, he has rejected you from being king.”
  • Acts 8:9-9 : 9 Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great. 10 All the people, from the least to the greatest, paid close attention to him, saying,“This man is the power of God that is called‘Great.’” 11 And they paid close attention to him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.
  • Acts 16:16-19 : 16 Paul and Silas Are Thrown Into Prison Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling. 17 She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out,“These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” 18 She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit,“I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out of her at once. 19 But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.
  • 1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For since you are so wise, you put up with fools gladly.
  • Titus 3:10 : 10 Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings.
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.
  • 1 Chr 10:13-14 : 13 So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD and did not obey the LORD’s instructions; he even tried to conjure up underworld spirits. 14 He did not seek the LORD’s guidance, so the LORD killed him and transferred the kingdom to David son of Jesse.
  • 2 Chr 33:6 : 6 He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the LORD and angered him.
  • Ezek 22:18 : 18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.

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  • Gal 5:21-22
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    21envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

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

  • Gal 5:19
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    19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

  • Mark 7:22
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    22adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

  • Rom 1:29-31
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    29They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

    30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

    31senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.

  • Col 3:5-6
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    5So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

    6Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

  • 2 Cor 12:20
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    20For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

  • Eph 5:5-7
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    5For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy(such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

    7Therefore do not be sharers with them,

  • Jas 3:14-16
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    14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

    15Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.

    16For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

  • Gal 5:15-17
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    15However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

    16But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

    17For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

  • 2 Tim 3:2-5
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    2For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

    3unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

    4treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

    5They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

  • 1 Cor 5:10-11
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    10In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

    11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • 1 Cor 10:20
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    20No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

  • Matt 15:19
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    19For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

  • Eph 4:31
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    31You must put away all bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and slanderous talk– indeed all malice.

  • 1 Cor 3:3
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    3for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

  • Eph 5:3
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    3But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

  • 1 Cor 10:14
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    14Avoid Idol Feasts So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

  • 1 Cor 11:19
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    19For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.

  • Jas 4:5
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    5Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

  • Acts 15:20
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    20but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

  • Rom 16:17
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    17Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

  • Rom 13:13
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    13Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

  • Deut 18:10
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    10There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    1Timothy’s Ministry in the Later Times Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,

  • Phil 1:15
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    15Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.

  • Col 3:8
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    8But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

  • Rom 2:8
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    8but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

  • Jude 1:11
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    11Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.

  • Rev 22:15
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    15Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,