Galatians 5:17

The flesh and the Spirit are in constant opposition, so believers cannot simply do whatever they want. The Christian experiences a real inner conflict between sin and the Spirit.

Cross-references · 34

• Rom 8:13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Rom 8:5–8For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
• Matt 26:41Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
• Ps 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
• Ps 51:10–12Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
• Eccl 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.
• Ps 119:32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
• Jas 4:5–6Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
• Ps 19:12–13Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
• Matt 16:23But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”
• Jas 3:2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Rom 7:7–8What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
• Luke 22:46and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
• Matt 12:30“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.
• Ps 51:1–5For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
• Rom 7:10–25The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
• Ps 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
• Luke 22:54–61They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.
• Matt 16:17Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
• Matt 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
• Isa 6:5Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
• Ps 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
• Ps 119:159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
• Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
• Ps 65:3Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.
• Ps 119:35Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
• Ps 119:4–6You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
• Luke 22:33He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”
• Ps 130:3If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
• Phil 3:12–16Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
• Ps 119:24–25Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED

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