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 have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
• Rom 8:12–14So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
• Gal 6:8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
• Gal 5:19–21Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
• Col 3:5–10Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Rom 8:4–5that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• 1 Jn 2:15–16Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Rom 13:13–14Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
• Rom 6:12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
• Jude 1:19–21These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
• Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• 1 Pet 4:1–4Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
• 1 Pet 1:14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• 1 Pet 4:6For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• Col 2:11in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
• Gal 3:17Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
• 1 Cor 7:29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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