Galatians 5:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

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  • Gal 5:24-25 : 24 and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires; 25 if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
  • Col 3:5-9 : 5 Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry -- 6 because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, 7 in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them; 8 but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, 10 and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;
  • Rom 13:13-14 : 13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation; 14 but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;
  • 1 Pet 4:1-4 : 1 Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh; 3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries, 4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,
  • Rom 8:4-5 : 4 that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;
  • Rom 8:12-14 : 12 So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; 13 for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live; 14 for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
  • 1 Pet 4:6 : 6 for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,
  • Jude 1:19-21 : 19 these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having. 20 And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying, 21 yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;
  • Col 2:11 : 11 in whom also ye were 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 the Christ,

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    17for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

    18and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

    19And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

  • Gal 5:21-26
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    21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

    22And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

    23meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

    24and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

    25if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

    26let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!

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    4that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

    5For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

    6for the mind of the flesh `is' death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace;

  • Rom 13:13-14
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    13as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

    14but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

    13for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

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    13For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

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    15and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.

  • Rom 8:8-10
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    8for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

    9And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ -- this one is not His;

    10and if Christ `is' in you, the body, indeed, `is' dead because of sin, and the Spirit `is' life because of righteousness,

  • Eph 5:17-18
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    17because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is' the will of the Lord,

    18and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

  • Rom 6:12
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    12Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

  • Gal 6:8
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    8because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

  • 2 Cor 10:3
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    3for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

  • 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 passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

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    17This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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    19these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

    2for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

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    5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

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    15afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

  • Jas 4:5
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    5Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

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    3so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

  • Rom 7:17-18
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    17and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

    18for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

  • Gal 5:1
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    1In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

  • Eph 5:15
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    15See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

  • Col 3:5
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    5Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

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    2of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

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    22ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

  • Rom 7:20
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    20And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.