Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

In Context

16But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh.

18But if ye are led by Spirit ye are not under law.

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Cross References

Psalms 19:12Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults].

Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalms 119:4Thou have commanded thy precepts, that we should observe them diligently.

Psalms 119:24Thy testimonies also are my delight [and] my counselors.

Psalms 119:35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight.

Psalms 119:133Establish my footsteps in thy word, and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

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 →

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