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

Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.

O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

And I say, 'Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

And Jesus answering said to him, 'Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

And these

the law, then, is against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

'He who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me, doth scatter.

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

So

Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently,

If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.

And he said to him, 'Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

if we may say -- 'we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;