Galatians 5:16
So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.
Catholic Public Domain 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 you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not consumed by one another!
Cross References
Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh.
Romans 8:12Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, so as to live according to the flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:29And so, this is what I say, brothers: The time is short. What remains of it is such that: those who have wives should be as if they had none;
Galatians 3:17But I say this: the testament confirmed by God, which, after four hundred and thirty years became the Law, does not nullify, so as to make the promise empty.
Galatians 5:24For those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires.
Ephesians 2:3And we too were all conversant in these things, in times past, by the desires of our flesh, acting according to the will of the flesh and according to our own thoughts. And so we were, by nature, sons of wrath, even like 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 →