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 perceives his unintentional sins?
Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bathsheba.Be gracious to me, God,
according to Your faithful love;
according to Your abundant compassion,
blot out my rebellion.

Iniquities overwhelm me;
only You can atone for our rebellions.

If only my ways were committed
to keeping Your statutes!

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth
who does good and never sins.

Then I said:

Woe is me for I am ruined
because I am a man of unclean lips
and live among a people of unclean lips,
and because my eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of Hosts.

And Jesus responded, “Simon son of Jonah,

you are blessed because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father in heaven.

Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

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

Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?

And these

Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law.

Anyone who is not with Me is against Me, and anyone who does not gather with Me scatters.

What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

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

So

You have commanded that Your precepts
be diligently kept.

Yahweh, if You considered sins,
Lord, who could stand?

Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed,

for they will be filled.

“Lord,” he told Him, “I’m ready to go with You both to prison and to death!”

For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.