Galatians 5:16
But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
In Context
15But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.
Cross References
Romans 8:1Consequently nothing is condemnation now to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.
Romans 8:12So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:29But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,
Galatians 3:17And I say this, a covenant previously confirmed by God in Christ, the law, which happened four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul in order to make the promise useless.
Galatians 5:24And those of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and the lusts.
Ephesians 2:3Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 5:14-26
Practical Godliness Enforced; Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit; The Fruits of the Spirit. ( a. d. 56.) 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the… Read the whole commentary →