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; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.

Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.

And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands; even in putting off your sensual nature in Christ's own circumcision,

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with 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.