Devine Scripture

Galatians 5:16

Galatians chapter 5 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Context

v.15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

v.16This passage

v.17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Peter 1:14

    as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

  • Romans 8:4

    that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • Romans 6:12

    Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

  • Romans 8:1

    There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

  • Jude 1:19

    These are they who make separations, sensual, having not the Spirit.

  • 1 Peter 2:11

    Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;