If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
Parallel translations
- KJV If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
- BSB Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with 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 5:16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
- Rom 8:4–5that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
- Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
- John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
- 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.
- Rom 8:10If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- 1 Cor 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
- Rev 11:11After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.
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