Galatians 5:16

World English Bible (2000)

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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  • Gal 5:24-25 : 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
  • 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 obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
  • Col 3:5-9 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; 8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth. 9 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, 10 and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
  • 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 properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
  • 1 Pet 4:1-4 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. 4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
  • 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 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.
  • Rom 8:12-14 : 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1 Pet 4:6 : 6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.
  • Jude 1:19-21 : 19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, keep 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 to eternal life.
  • Col 2:11 : 11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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  • Gal 5:17-19
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    17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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

    19Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

  • Gal 5:21-26
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    21envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that 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, faith,

    23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

    24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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

    26Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and 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 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 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 properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

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

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

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

  • Gal 5:13-15
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    13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

    15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

  • Rom 8:8-10
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    8Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

    9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

    10If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

  • Eph 5:17-18
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    17Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

    18Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

  • Rom 6:12
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    12Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

  • Gal 6:8
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    8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • 2 Cor 10:3
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    3For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh;

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

  • Eph 5:9
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    9for the fruit of the Spirit 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, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

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

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

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

    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 don't know God;

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

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

  • Jas 4:5
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    5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

  • Gal 3:3
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    3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

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

    18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • Eph 5:15
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    15Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

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

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

  • Eph 4:22
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    22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

  • Rom 7:20
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    20But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.