Galatians 5:16

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Galatians 5:16

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these : fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

Love 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.