Galatians 5:16

This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

17For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

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Cross References

Romans 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

Romans 8:12Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule.

1 Corinthians 7:29Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Galatians 3:17I mean that the Covenant which God had already formally made is not abrogated by the Law which was given four hundred and thirty years later--so as to annul the promise.

Galatians 5:24Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.

Ephesians 2:3Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all 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 →

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