Galatians 5:19

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Summary

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

The works

Adultery

General references

Leviticus 18:20

Proverbs 2:18

1 Timothy 5:24

Bible References

The works

For ye were called to liberty brethren; only not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve ye one another.

For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life.

For the works of men, by the word of thy lips I watched the ways of the violent one.

That born of flesh is flesh; and that born of the Spirit is spirit.

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.

Adultery

Behold, the princes of Israel they were a man to his arm to pour out;blood in thee.

But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.

For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,

And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Knowing this, that the law is laid down not for the just one, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the profane and sinful, for the wicked and unholy, for the patricides and matricides, for manslayers,

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.

And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie.

General references

To thy neighbor's wife thou shalt not give thy effusion of seed to be defiled with her.

For her house sunk down to death, and her tracks to the shades.

Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment; and also to some they follow in the train.