Galatians 5:16

Walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. The Spirit-led life is God's appointed means for overcoming sin.

Cross-references · 21

• Gal 5:24–25Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
• Rom 8:12–14Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
• Gal 6:8The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
• Gal 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• Col 3:5–10Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Rom 8:4–5so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
• 1 Jn 2:15–16Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
• 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Rom 13:13–14Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
• Rom 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
• Jude 1:19–21These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.
• Eph 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
• 1 Pet 4:1–4Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
• 1 Pet 1:14As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
• 1 Pet 4:6That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
• 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• Rom 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
• Col 2:11In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
• Gal 3:17What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
• 1 Cor 7:29What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

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