Galatians 5:23
meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
In Context
22But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,
24For those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires.
Cross References
Acts 24:25And after he discoursed about justice and chastity, and about the future judgment, Felix was trembling, and he responded: “For now, go, but remain under guard. Then, at an opportune time, I will summon you.”
1 Timothy 1:9Knowing this, that the law was not set in place for the just, but for the unjust and the insubordinate, for the impious and sinners, for the wicked and the defiled, for those who commit patricide, matricide, or homicide,
Titus 2:2Old men should be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience.
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 →