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? Forgive me from hidden errors.

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

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

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, Yahweh of Armies!"

Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

And these

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

"He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

So

You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

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

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

For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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