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 you brothers, were called for freedom; only do not use your freedom for an occasion to the flesh. Serve one another through love!

He that sows to his own flesh will harvest corruption of the flesh. But he that sows to the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.

I have avoided cruelty because of your word regardless of what others have done.

That which is born from the flesh is flesh and that which is born from the Spirit is spirit.

When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature.

You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men?

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).

Adultery

See how all the princes of Israel who live in you have used their power to shed blood (murder people).

That which comes out of the mouth, comes from the heart and makes a man unclean.

It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).

Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among holy ones.

Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

Knowing this, that Law is not made for a righteous person. It is for the lawless and unruly, the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, and for manslayers.

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth.

You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).

But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.

Outside are the dogs (impure men) and those who practice spiritism, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who tells lies.'

General references

Do not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her.

If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the dead.

Some men's sins are known publicly, leading to judgment; and some men's sin becomes known later.