Galatians 5:16
I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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 you bite and devour one another, take heed lest you be utterly destroyed by one another.
Cross References
Romans 8:1There is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;
1 Corinthians 7:29Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not;
Galatians 3:17And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.
Galatians 5:24Now those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Ephesians 2:3among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the feelings, and were by nature children of wrath, even as 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 →