Galatians 5:24
Against 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.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
In Context
23good faith, meekness, self-restraint.
25If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.
Cross References
Romans 8:9You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.
Romans 13:14On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.
1 Corinthians 15:23But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.
Galatians 3:29And if you belong to Christ, then you are indeed true descendants of Abraham, and are heirs in fulfilment of the promise.
Galatians 5:20enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, intrigues, dissensions, factions, envyings;
1 Peter 2:11Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul.
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 →