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 perceive [his] errors? Acquit me from hidden [faults].

Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love. According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Iniquities prevail over me. As for our transgressions, you will {forgive} them.

Oh that my ways were steadfast, to keep your statutes!

Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who [continually] does good and never sins.

And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I [am] a man {of unclean lips}, and I [am] living among a people {of unclean lips}, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"

And Jesus answered [and] said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal [this] to you, but my Father [who is] in heaven.

Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

For those who are [living] according to the flesh are intent on the things of the flesh, but those [who are living] according to the Spirit [are intent on] the things of the Spirit.

Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?

And these

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters.

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

For those who are [living] according to the flesh are intent on the things of the flesh, but those [who are living] according to the Spirit [are intent on] the things of the Spirit.

So

You have commanded your precepts, that [we] should keep [them] diligently.

If you, O Yah, should {keep track of} iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Blessed [are] the ones who hunger and thirst [for] righteousness, because they will be satisfied.

But he said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"

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

Not that I have already received [this], or [have] already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of [that] for which also I was laid hold of by Christ.

For we all stumble [in] many [ways]. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he [is] a perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also.

If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.