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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But the works of carnality are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, debauchery,

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it:

Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:

Therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also:

in whom you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of depravity, in the circumcision of Christ;

Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

As children of obedience, not being fashioned after your former lusts in ignorance:

Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;

Therefore Christ having suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same mind: because the one having suffered in carnality has ceased from sin;

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him: