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 5:24–25And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Rom 8:12–14Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
• Gal 6:8For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
• Gal 5:19–21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Col 3:5–10Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Rom 8:4–5That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• 1 Jn 2:15–16Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 1 Pet 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Rom 13:13–14Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• Rom 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• Jude 1:19–21These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
• Eph 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• 1 Pet 4:1–4Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
• 1 Pet 1:14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
• 1 Pet 4:6For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Col 2:11In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
• Gal 3:17And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
• 1 Cor 7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

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