Galatians 5:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.

For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David's affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!

Our record of sins overwhelms me, but you forgive our acts of rebellion.

If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!

For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

I said, "Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies."

And Jesus answered him, "You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall 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 nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?

And these

Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

So

You demand that your precepts be carefully kept.

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

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

For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate.

Not that I have already attained this -- that is, I have not already been perfected -- but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.

For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.