Galatians 5:23
meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
In Context
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,
24But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
Cross References
Acts 24:25And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;
1 Timothy 1:9knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to [the] lawless and insubordinate, to [the] impious and sinful, to [the] unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,
Titus 2:2that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, 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 →