Galatians 5:16

Live By The Spirit And Reject The Deeds Of The Flesh

¹⁵ But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another. ¹⁶ This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures. ¹⁷ For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

Certainly Not

Desires of the Flesh

Holy Spirit

In the Spirit

Lust of the Flesh

Of the Flesh

Walk in the Spirit

By No Means

By The Spirit

Live By The Spirit

No

Galatians 5:24-25

Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.

Romans 6:12

Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;

Romans 8:12-14

Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule.

Romans 13:13-14

Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in quarrelling and jealousy.

Ephesians 2:3

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

Romans 8:4-5

in order that in our case the requirements of the Law might be fully met. For our lives are regulated not by our earthly, but by our spiritual natures.

1 Corinthians 7:29

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit, and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.

Galatians 3:17

I mean that the Covenant which God had already formally made is not abrogated by the Law which was given four hundred and thirty years later--so as to annul the promise.

Galatians 5:19-21

Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;

Galatians 6:8

He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.

Colossians 2:11

In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Christian circumcision;

Colossians 3:5-10

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

1 Peter 1:14

And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,

1 Peter 1:22

Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul.

1 Peter 4:1-4

Since, then, Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with a determination to do the same--because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin--

1 Peter 4:6

For it is with this end in view that the Good News was proclaimed even to some who were dead, that they may be judged, as all mankind will be judged, in the body, but may be living a godly life in the spirit.

1 John 2:15-16

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.

Jude 1:19-21

These are those who cause divisions. They are men of the world, wholly unspiritual.

Romans 8:1

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;