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 clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.