Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
Parallel translations
- WEB If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
- KJV If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
- NKJV If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
- NASB If we live by the Spirit, let’s follow the Spirit as well.
- NLT Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.
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Quick answer
If we live by the Spirit, we should also walk by the Spirit. Our new life from the Spirit should govern our daily conduct.
Overview
Paul reasons from the believer's spiritual life to a corresponding way of living: those made alive by the Spirit must order their steps by Him. There is to be no gap between the Spirit's life within and the practical course of one's life. The verse calls for consistent, day-by-day dependence on the Spirit who first gave us life.
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Cross-references · 9
- Gal 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- 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.
- Rom 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
- John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- 2 Cor 3:6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
- 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.
- Rom 8:10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- 1 Cor 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
- Rev 11:11But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them.
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