Galatians 5:21
Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
20Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,
22But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:20And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:
Matthew 25:34Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Romans 2:8But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.
Romans 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy:
1 Corinthians 6:9Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
Ephesians 5:5For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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 →