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 understandeth his errors? Purify me from secret faults.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.} Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Iniquities have prevailed against me: our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.

And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is ready, but the flesh weak.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.

For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

And these

Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law;

He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers not with me scatters.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

So

Thou hast enjoined thy precepts, to be kept diligently.

If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?

Blessed they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.

For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.

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