Galatians 5:17

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Summary

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

The flesh

And these

So

Bible References

The flesh

Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults].

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Iniquities prevail against me. As for our transgressions, thou will forgive them.

O that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.

Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

And having answered, Jesus said to him, Blessed are thou, Simon Bar-jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father in the heavens.

Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation. Truly, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

That which is begotten from the flesh is flesh, and that which is begotten from the Spirit is spirit.

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

For those who are according to flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?

And these

Is the law therefore against the promises of God? May it not happen! For if a law was given that could make alive, truly righteousness would be from law.

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

For those who are according to flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit.

So

Thou have commanded thy precepts, that we should observe them diligently.

If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be filled.

And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee both to prison and to death.

For I do not understand what I do, for I do not do this that I want, but what I hate, this I do.

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.