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 evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh,arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.